Wwii: Witness To War
The world had largely ignored the growing threat of Nazism during the late 1930s and now the appeasement of Hitler was about to have terrible consequences.
2026-07-23 21:01:10 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 21:57:55 +0000 UTC(56m)
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The Real Hunt For Red October
The docu-drama The Real Hunt for Red October reveals, for the first time, the astonishing secret events behind the Russian submarine K-129 that went missing on March 8, 1968, taking the Soviet Union and the U.S. to the brink of war.
2026-07-24 00:47:55 +0000 UTC→2026-07-24 01:43:05 +0000 UTC(55m)
History Of Weapons
Experts look at three types of weapon employed to attack civilian populations, from the medieval trebuchet to modern bio-weapons and nuclear bombs.
2026-07-23 23:50:43 +0000 UTC→2026-07-24 00:47:55 +0000 UTC(57m)
History Of Weapons
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.
2026-07-23 22:54:42 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 23:50:43 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
With the fall of France, only Britain stood between Hitler and complete victory in Europe. But German High Command knew that it first had to have mastery of the skies.
2026-07-23 21:57:55 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 22:54:42 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
The world had largely ignored the growing threat of Nazism during the late 1930s and now the appeasement of Hitler was about to have terrible consequences.
2026-07-23 21:01:10 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 21:57:55 +0000 UTC(56m)
Mission Unexplained
While on patrol in Chechnyan forest, a Russian infantryman sees mysterious lights and fights an unknown presence that has a hypnotising effect. An intrepid Air Force engineer learns about evidence of UFOs at Wright Patterson Air Force Base.
2026-07-23 20:03:45 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 21:01:10 +0000 UTC(57m)
Mission Unexplained
US Navy Boatswain Mate, Robert Young, witnesses a strange green fog in the Bermuda triangle and experiences a spiritual warning that saves his life. Tech Sergeant Octavia Madden discovers her base house is haunted by the spirit of a little girl.
2026-07-23 19:06:33 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 20:03:45 +0000 UTC(57m)
Guns That Changed The Game
While the single shot rifle remained a mainstay until WWI, machine guns had been in development since the final days of the American Civil War.
2026-07-23 12:34:25 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 13:29:01 +0000 UTC(54m)
Guns That Changed The Game
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.
2026-07-23 11:37:14 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 12:34:25 +0000 UTC(57m)
History Of Weapons
Experts look at three types of weapon employed to attack civilian populations, from the medieval trebuchet to modern bio-weapons and nuclear bombs.
2026-07-23 10:40:02 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 11:37:14 +0000 UTC(57m)
History Of Weapons
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.
2026-07-23 09:44:01 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 10:40:02 +0000 UTC(56m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
The definitive combat helicopter saw first blood in South East Asia and has been transport, gunship, smoke ship, command centre, MediVac and dozens of other roles. We hear and see it's hair raising missions and watch it earn its fame.
2026-07-23 08:47:55 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 09:44:01 +0000 UTC(56m)
History's Greatest Aircraft
The aircraft capable of delivering the payload of a B17, in a single post war air frame. The many variants of this single piston engined fighter bomber helped dominate the air to ground attack role in Vietnam, earning quite a reputation.
2026-07-23 07:51:29 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 08:47:55 +0000 UTC(56m)
Combat Trains
The story of the trench warfare from the First World War is well known. What is less well known is that the efficiency of the railway networks of both sides helped cause that stalemate.
2026-07-23 06:54:37 +0000 UTC→2026-07-23 07:51:29 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
Up until the end of 1941, the USA stayed resolutely neutral. Not surprisingly, there was little public appetite for joining a war that was taking place many miles away and seemed to have little to do with the world's greatest superpower.
2026-07-22 21:00:00 +0000 UTC→2026-07-22 21:56:51 +0000 UTC(56m)
Wwii: Witness To War
With the invasion of Britain officially postponed, The Germans looked for another way to knock Britain out of the war. As an island race, Britons depended on its merchant navy to provide vital war materials, not to mention food and fuel.
2026-07-22 20:03:18 +0000 UTC→2026-07-22 21:00:00 +0000 UTC(56m)
Dictators' Hideouts
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.
2026-07-22 19:06:10 +0000 UTC→2026-07-22 20:03:18 +0000 UTC(57m)
Dictators' Hideouts
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.
2026-07-22 18:08:52 +0000 UTC→2026-07-22 19:06:10 +0000 UTC(57m)
Combat Ships
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.
2026-07-22 17:11:56 +0000 UTC→2026-07-22 18:08:52 +0000 UTC(56m)
Combat Ships
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.
2026-07-22 16:15:34 +0000 UTC→2026-07-22 17:11:56 +0000 UTC(56m)
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