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'.
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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.
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.
In 1961, Soviet T-54 tanks and American M-48 Patton tanks face off at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin.
Exploring the machines that hide in the shadows, capturing, transmitting and analysing vital combat information.
We examine the robot that defused bombs both on foreign battlefields and British streets, and an astonishing Gulf War minelayer
Examining the machines used by iconic military unit 'The Desert Rats' in the North African desert campaign of World War II.
Examining the machines used by iconic military unit 'The Desert Rats' in the North African desert campaign of World War II.
Examining moments of engineering ingenuity which made the difference between triumph and disaster on the battlefield - beginning with World War I.
A look at the origins of the Arms Race between the USA and the Soviet Union, and the nuclear weapons that ended WWII.
A look at the military engineering used as US and South Vietnamese forces attempt to overcome North Vietnam and the Viet Cong.
In 1914, Russian designer Nikolay Lebedenko decided to engineer a solution to the problem of trench warfare with an armoured vehicle with huge wheels that could move over any terrain.
1942 and Hitler has the totally barking idea of using educated dogs to do a soldier's job. The Nazi leader wants to create fearsome canines to help him win the Second World War.
Near the Czech border, a secret German site, "The Giant," tests The Bell, powered by Serum 525, turning all who touch it into rotting living zombies.
In 1943, the inmates of the Death Camp at Sobibor staged an organised rebellion against their Nazi oppressors.
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