Hitler wanted the world to believe he possessed super-human qualities but in private he was a wreck. This episode reveals the archives that confirm Hitler's genital deformity, the alarming truth about his heavy drug addiction and the Parkinson's.
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The greatest hideout in fascist Italy's history: The Monte Soratte Bunker. Built directly into a mountainside, with security features even a Bond villain could only dream of. But could Mussolini's bunker withstand an all-out Allied assault?
Hitler's last secret is revealed: a sprawling underground headquarters at Książ Castle, complete with a spectacular network of underground complexes in the Owl Mountains. Was this intended to be the birthplace of Hitler's ultimate superweapon?
Along with Treblinka and Majdanek, Sobibor was one of the camps used in Operation Reinhard, in which the Nazis murdered almost two million people.
In the shadow of the war, the Nazi regime gradually advances its "final solution to the Jewish problem", culminating in the Holocaust.
Hitler wanted the world to believe he possessed super-human qualities but in private he was a wreck. This episode reveals the archives that confirm Hitler's genital deformity, the alarming truth about his heavy drug addiction and the Parkinson's.
Adolf Hitler had a depraved sex life that he tried to keep hidden from the German public. He was said to be a chronic masturbator, a voyeur and that he engaged in sado-masochistic sex with women.
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.
Wars become even bloodier as new technologies continue to evolve. An international team of experts tests the deadliest weapons upgrades in the history of warfare.
The greatest hideout in fascist Italy's history: The Monte Soratte Bunker. Built directly into a mountainside, with security features even a Bond villain could only dream of. But could Mussolini's bunker withstand an all-out Allied assault?
Hitler's last secret is revealed: a sprawling underground headquarters at Książ Castle, complete with a spectacular network of underground complexes in the Owl Mountains. Was this intended to be the birthplace of Hitler's ultimate superweapon?
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.
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.
In 1945, WWII was over but the violence had not ended. The survivors want to blame the Germans. The reckoning with National Socialism is ambivalent.
The defeat at Stalingrad in 1943 was the turning point of the war and convinced the Nazi leadership to intensify their terror and propaganda campaigns.
Ranged weapons guarantee a warrior's best chance of survival. International experts survey history's most important ranged weapons, from the Roman spear and the English longbow, right up to the futuristic railgun.
Al is joined by Sanjeev Kohli as they visit Craufurdland Castle to explore the truth behind famous battles from the Wars of Scottish Independenc
Comedian John Thomson and historian Janina Ramirez join Al to explore the truth about Vikings and how they were so successful in Britain.
In this episode of the series, we look at the dark and disturbing tale of the skeleton of an unknown woman found in a hollowed-out tree in a Birmingham woodland.
The fact that Hitler's niece, Geli Raubal, was found dead in his apartment in 1931 has remained a little-known footnote in the Fuhrers long and bloody legacy. The investigation concluded that she had committed suicide using her uncle's revolver.
In 1945, WWII was over but the violence had not ended. The survivors want to blame the Germans. The reckoning with National Socialism is ambivalent.
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