Cracking The Code
Revealing the encrypted German telegram could save Britain in its darkest hour. Can a team of geniuses decode the message in time?
2026-06-30 11:26:14 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 12:23:38 +0000 UTC(57m)
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Secret Wars Uncovered
In 2008, nearly 850 people are killed in the Russo-Georgian War. How did it erupt and what is the current relationship between the two nations?
2026-06-30 12:23:38 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 13:21:13 +0000 UTC(57m)
Cracking The Code
Revealing the encrypted German telegram could save Britain in its darkest hour. Can a team of geniuses decode the message in time?
2026-06-30 11:26:14 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 12:23:38 +0000 UTC(57m)
Cracking The Code
A look at America's Cold War codebreakers charged with unravelling a seemingly uncrackable Soviet code and the uncovering of the Manhattan Project.
2026-06-30 10:27:39 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 11:26:14 +0000 UTC(58m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
The Junkers Ju 52, which is considered one of the most famous airplanes in history. It was first designed as an airliner, but was used as a transport, bomber, and air ambulance during the Second World War.
2026-06-30 09:33:50 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 10:27:39 +0000 UTC(53m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
The Grumman Avenger, which was the most important carrier-based torpedo bomber on American and British carriers throughout the Second World War. They were also the biggest and heaviest carrier aircraft of the conflict.
2026-06-30 08:40:01 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 09:33:50 +0000 UTC(53m)
Combat Ships
We explore two submarines – former Cold War enemies now moored in a Kent river, and discover the story of Vasili Arkhipov, a Soviet submariner who refused to authorise a nuclear launch.
2026-06-30 07:45:05 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 08:40:01 +0000 UTC(54m)
Combat Ships
John F Kennedy first made news in 1943 when, as a skipper of a torpedo boat in the Pacific, he and his crew were shipwrecked. We tell the story of their rescue.
2026-06-30 06:50:43 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 07:45:05 +0000 UTC(54m)
Secret Nazi Expeditions
Runes are the letters of an ancient Germanic writing system that harkens back to a mythological age filled with heroes, magic, and mystery.
2026-06-30 00:45:01 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 01:41:44 +0000 UTC(56m)
Secret Nazi Expeditions
The debate about humanity's true origins becomes a nefarious fixation as SS leader Heinrich Himmler turns his attention to proving the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race.
2026-06-29 23:48:17 +0000 UTC→2026-06-30 00:45:01 +0000 UTC(56m)
Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Al joins forces with German comedian Henning Wehn to delve deeper into the truth behind some World War II myths.
2026-06-29 22:51:15 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 23:48:17 +0000 UTC(57m)
Al Murray: Why Do The Brits Win Every War
Frenchman Fred Sirieix joins Al Murray to break down what really happened during the Napoleonic wars. Did Britain really win the battle of Waterloo?
2026-06-29 21:53:54 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 22:51:15 +0000 UTC(57m)
Wwii: Witness To War
And so it finally arrived: 6th June 1944, the day that British, US and Canadian troops were sent across the English Channel to begin the job of reclaiming continental Europe and freeing it from German occupation.
2026-06-29 20:57:24 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 21:53:54 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
The decision by Hitler to send his armies east in to Russia was probably the most significant of the war. Now against military convention, he was fighting on two fronts and almost as bad made a bitter enemy of an erstwhile ally.
2026-06-29 20:00:30 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 20:57:24 +0000 UTC(56m)
Shadow Man
A British undercover agent, William Stephenson, is on a secret mission in the USA during the Second World War he aims to convince Americans to join the war against Hitler's Germany.
2026-06-29 18:06:00 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 20:00:30 +0000 UTC(1h54m)
Secret Wars Uncovered
In 1944, 28 Greek socialists were shot in Syntagma Square and 100,000 had perished by the end of the Civil War. Was this the old order Winston Churchill had longed for?
2026-06-29 12:24:14 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 13:21:43 +0000 UTC(57m)
Secret Nazi Expeditions
Runes are the letters of an ancient Germanic writing system that harkens back to a mythological age filled with heroes, magic, and mystery.
2026-06-29 11:27:31 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 12:24:14 +0000 UTC(56m)
Secret Nazi Expeditions
The debate about humanity's true origins becomes a nefarious fixation as SS leader Heinrich Himmler turns his attention to proving the Paleolithic past of Germany's Aryan race.
2026-06-29 10:30:47 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 11:27:31 +0000 UTC(56m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
The definitive combat helicopter saw first blood in South East Asia and has been transport, gunship, smoke ship, command centre, MediVac and dozens of other roles. We hear and see it's hair raising missions and watch it earn its fame.
2026-06-29 09:34:31 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 10:30:47 +0000 UTC(56m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
The aircraft capable of delivering the payload of a B17, in a single post war air frame. The many variants of this single piston engined fighter bomber helped dominate the air to ground attack role in Vietnam, earning quite a reputation.
2026-06-29 08:38:25 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 09:34:31 +0000 UTC(56m)
Combat Ships
We pinpoint the moment the USA became a global superpower when we recreate how the USS Olympia won the Battle of Manila Bay, and we show how the revolutionary British HMS Dreadnought brought ship design into the 20th century.
2026-06-29 07:44:25 +0000 UTC→2026-06-29 08:38:25 +0000 UTC(54m)
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