In the second episode, Mary Beard explores the physical world of the Roman Empire, and finds surprising parallels with our own world.
We visit ancient cities and battlefields, great ruins and wild countryside, all in his search to uncover how the ancient Greeks thought and lived. What he finds is that ancient Greece was a seething tornado of strange, unsettling and downright outrageous customs and beliefs, inhabited by a people who could be as brutal as they were brilliant.
1/2 • Who Were the Greeks? • 2013 • History
Edward III rips up the medieval rule book and crushes the flower of French knighthood at the Battle of Crecy with his low-born archers. His son, the Black Prince, conducts a campaign of terror, helping to bring France to her knees.
1/3 • Chivalry and Betrayal: The Hundred Years War • 2013 • History
Caesar's hard-won victory over Gaul endears him to the Roman people but leads to a military showdown with the Senate and his former ally, Pompey.
S2E3 • Roman Empire • 2018 • History
In the first episode, we see the origins of the Celts in the Alps of central Europe and relive the moment of first contact with the Romans in a pitched battle just north of Rome - a battle that the Celts won and that left the imperial city devastated.
1/3 • The Celts: Blood, Iron, and Sacrifice • 2015 • History
Even after the allies landing in Normandy and the failed battle of the bulge as last attempt, Hitler does not want to accept the end, and the German people still believe in their leader
13/13 • The Hitler Chronicles • 2018 • History
