July 1943. For six months, the German advance has stalled, but Hitler is convinced that his new generation of Nazi tanks will help put the Reich back on the path to European domination. His target: the Soviet town of Kursk.
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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.
Small arms production hit a boom in the early 1800s with the emergence of the modern cartridge an invention that led to the lethal package.
The industrial revolution changed it all when it came to cannons as they evolved from wholly inaccurate and immobile to deadly killing machines.
The mighty Flying Fortress takes to the air as we examine the background and development of one of WWIIs most iconic bombers. Serving with both the USAAF and the RAF, we see it in action and fly a surfing example.
The F15 Eagle immediately turned the tide of the first Gulf War to prove its greatness. Our immaculately restored MiG Killer was involved in one of the most bizarre combat incidents during that conflict, and has survived to tell the tale.
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'.
For the men about to board "Miss Every Morning Fixin", the pressures of the War had been eased by a period of rest and relaxation in Queensland, but they were returning to war operations in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. They were never to return.
A Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command takes off from Gibraltar for England. On board is General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland's London-based government in exile and Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces.
February, 1943, a B-25 Mitchell Bomber crashes into Sharp Top Mountain. It was the third training crash in the area that night. What really caused this accident?
Operation Overlord is launched. With the Normandy Landings, the Allies pierce the Atlantic Wall. In the East, the Red Army sweeps through Belarus with Operation Bagration, annihilating the Wehrmacht. The end of the Third Reich is near.
At Stalingrad, the German 6th Army is destroyed by the Soviets. It's the first major defeat of the Third Reich, which marks the beginning of its decline. Elsewhere, after the American victory at Guadalcanal, Japan loses the initiative in the Pacific.
July 1943. For six months, the German advance has stalled, but Hitler is convinced that his new generation of Nazi tanks will help put the Reich back on the path to European domination. His target: the Soviet town of Kursk.
1942. Nazi Germany's Blitzkrieg enters Egypt. Field Marshal Erwin Rommel, aka the Desert Fox, has his eyes set on Cairo, but first he must overcome General Bernard Montgomery, the British Eighth Army, and the area's punishing fighting conditions.
Convinced the medieval witch trials were a Judeo-Christian attempt to exterminate the Aryans, Himmler established a special team led by Reinhard Heydrich to build a database of medieval German witchcraft practices.
As the Nazis rose to power, Himmler and the SS were convinced Atlantis could be found, and instigated a series of archeological expeditions seeking to uncover and exploit its secrets.
A Liberator bomber from RAF Transport Command takes off from Gibraltar for England. On board is General Władysław Sikorski, Prime Minister of Poland's London-based government in exile and Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces.
February, 1943, a B-25 Mitchell Bomber crashes into Sharp Top Mountain. It was the third training crash in the area that night. What really caused this accident?
We trace the astonishing story of designers turning away from metal and back to wood to create a twin-engine bomber that could outrun almost any aircraft in the sky, yet deliver a bomb load greater than an Avro Lancaster.
The Heinkel He 111 is one of the most recognised German aircraft of WW2. The broad winged design was a guinea pig for future bombers, with more variants than any other military aircraft of the time.
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