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.
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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.
Nazi Germany boasted that its locomotives were faster and more innovative. This programme examines that claim by looking at these ‘flying trains'.
The Russian soldier who led a desperate outbreak from a secret Nazi death camp, Operation Chicken - an audacious plan to flee an escape-proof Japanese prison camp, and the pilots whose bold bid for freedom won the admiration of their enemies.
The German mass breakout that stunned wartime Britain, the astonishing secret behind the daring escape of an American bomber crew trapped in the Soviet Union, and the Trojan Horse of Stalag Luft Three.
An adrenaline-fuelled dash through nazi-occupied Europe known as ‘The Flight of the Crow', a death-defying escape across the world's most perilous mountain range, and the largest escape of world war two - by men who chose death over dishonour.
Colditz Castle, the foreboding Nazi fortress that became a university of escapology The Great Escape, and the doomed airmen of Stalag Luft Three and the most daring breakout of them all, the ‘Warburg Wire Job'.
Hitler's last soldier in America who defied the FBI for 40 years, the Auschwitz prisoners who releaved the secrets of the death camps, and the merciless Nazi who almost got away.
The elite German submariners who caused havoc in the heart of the American desert, the playboy pilot they couldn't cage, and the young lovers whose escape defied all odds.
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