An aerial journey reveals how Egypt is modernizing while preserving its unique past.
Flying across Egypt reveals how the ancients' achievements shaped the modern nation.
2019 • History
An aerial journey reveals how Egypt is modernizing while preserving its unique past.
2019 • History
How did one man succeed in relaunching the Olympic spirit and turn the Games into a global event?
S2E5 • Butterfly Effect • 2018 • History
What would the Civil Rights movement in the USA have been like if Martin Luther King, Jr. had not been motivating change? How does the legacy of the American Civil War still affect the American democracy?
S1E3 • Butterfly Effect • 2016 • History
In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domination of the continent. The conflicting ambitions of the Plantagenet king of England, Edward III, and the Valois king of France, Philip VI, brought intrigue, war, kidnapping and mayhem to France.
S1E1 • The Real War of Thrones: The True History of Europe • 2017 • History
Alastair explores the extraordinary afterlife of the Greek masterpieces that changed the course of western culture. Succeeding centuries have found in ancient Greek art inspiration for their own ideals and ambitions. Filming in Italy, Germany, France and Britain, Alastair's investigation includes The Venus of Knidos, the first naked woman in Western art, the bronze horses of St Mark's in Venice which became a pawn in an imperial game and the naked discus thrower, the Discobolus, personally bought by Adolf Hitler and used by him as a symbol of Aryan supremacy.
3/3 • Treasures of Ancient Greece • 2015 • History
In the final part of the series Bettany Hughes recalls the time that marked Rome's symbolic break with its 1,000-year pagan past - the day in 337AD that Emperor Constantine the Great was baptised a Christian. It was a moment of profound significance not just for the empire, but for the history of the world and one of its major religions. Constantine was one of the last great Roman emperors to rule over a united empire, giving it a new capital - Constantinople, today known as Istanbul - a city which would one day eclipse Rome as the greatest city on Earth.
8/8 • Eight Days That Made Rome • 2017 • History
Through colorized home movies and news footage, we take a fresh look at the British Empire in the early 1900s.
2/3 • Britain in Color • 2019 • History
