The Abyss: Rise And Fall Of The Nazis
President Hindenburg suspends freedom of speech and Hitler comes to power in 1933. The first concentration camps for political opponents are set up.
President Hindenburg suspends freedom of speech and Hitler comes to power in 1933. The first concentration camps for political opponents are set up.
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A look at America's Cold War codebreakers charged with unravelling a seemingly uncrackable Soviet code and the uncovering of the Manhattan Project.
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 expansion of the Japanese empire had as its main aim the conquest of territories rich in natural resources. And so Japan cast its eyes towards South East Asia.
During the early months and years of the war, Britain and her allies were almost powerless to hit back at Germany. They were on the back foot, unable to take the war to where the Germans would feel it most – Germany.
How women were active - and often violent participants and perpetrators - in the conflict and its attendant atrocities - especially the Holocaust.
A look at the women surrounding Hitler once he came to power, and how they were held up as the Aryan Ideal to strive for once the Nazi dictator approved of their positions.
Revealing the encrypted German telegram could save Britain in its darkest hour. Can a team of geniuses decode the message in time?
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.
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