This episode remembers some of the thunderous naval battles which took place during the Pacific war. They include the Battle of the Coral Sea, the battle of Midway and the biggest naval engagement of the war – the battle of Leyte Gulf.
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President Hindenburg suspends freedom of speech and Hitler comes to power in 1933. The first concentration camps for political opponents are set up.
A social protest turns into a racist and anti-Jewish movement during the 1920s and the NSDAP use emotions to gain the loyalty of the people.
The Japanese Super Code reveals the US efforts to crack Japan's unbreakable WWII code following the horror of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Uncovering some of the world's most famous encryptions. Revealing how they were decoded, the brilliant minds who cracked them and the mysteries they were hiding.
The story of the prolonged development and the initially troubled operational history of the Boeing B-29 Superfortress. Forever known as the airframe that dropped the first atomic weapons on Japan, the B-29 lived on well beyond its war years.
The definitive, if not the best, Axis fighter of World War two: we delve into the story of legendary ace Adolf Galland and examine in detail and example of the type in his colours. We also look at the technical heritage the 109 designers left.
In the 19th century, weapons became more sophisticated and more deadly, and the results were higher casualties with devastating wounds.
A pseudoscientific theory embraced by the Nazis claimed that their Aryan ancestors had sought refuge in the Himalayas during a mythical cataclysmic ice age.
As the Third Reich rises to power, Himmler and the SS become fixated on the Holy Grail, interpreting much of the myth surrounding it as fact - and the quest for it as attainable.
A secret bunker below the Kremlin, a sanctuary in the coastal forests of Sochi and a hidden second Metro in Russia's capital are just some of the bunkers developed for Stalin, seen for the first time ever using recently declassified documentation.
Paranoid and isolated, Albanian dictator Enver Hoxha establishes his bunkerization project, which would result in the construction of more than 170,000 bunkers, including the top secret HQ in Tirana, and a bunker city known as The Capital of War.
This episode remembers some of the thunderous naval battles which took place during the Pacific war. They include the Battle of the Coral Sea, the battle of Midway and the biggest naval engagement of the war – the battle of Leyte Gulf.
Meanwhile in North Africa, the Italian dictator Mussolini had his own ideas about building a new Roman Empire in the region. And so he sent thousands of poorly-trained and ill-prepared Italian troops against the British garrison in Egypt.
Runes are the letters of an ancient Germanic writing system that harkens back to a mythological age filled with heroes, magic, and mystery.
In the wake of the First World War, Adolf Hitler identifies Benito Mussolini as his model and has one ultimate goal: to gain power in Germany.
A pseudoscientific theory embraced by the Nazis claimed that their Aryan ancestors had sought refuge in the Himalayas during a mythical cataclysmic ice age.
As the Third Reich rises to power, Himmler and the SS become fixated on the Holy Grail, interpreting much of the myth surrounding it as fact - and the quest for it as attainable.
Unusually, we look at the later, clipped wing version flown by Czech refugee pilots in the UK during WW2. We get close-up with a beautifully restored example, fly her and unearth long unseen test and operational footage.
The Avro Lancaster is the legendary British heavy bomber that carved its place in history with Bomber Command during World War 2. That conflict saw over seven thousand of these iconic aircraft come off the production line.
Veterans and historians of the Thai-Burma railway tell the story of its construction. Built to supply Japan's invasion of India, it cost thousands of lives – both POWs and Asian slave labourers.
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