The enemy pilot who saved a bomb crew's lives Adolf Hitler's secret drug habit The WW1 rumour that may have saved Paris and nuclear bombs that can be hidden in a suitcase.
The unfortunate fate of the world's first tank The Samurai soldier who never got the memo A supersonic toilet that could help win the Battle of Britain and some-thing strange is stirring in the Arctic
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 Suitable for all
The Lancaster was Britain's heavy bomber that saw service during World War Two. The plane suffered troubled beginnings but went on to have an amazing future as Britain's legendary bomber.
The secret Nazi program that sounds like a Marvel movie The Mongol curse unleashed on Stalin's Russia Exploding cities that don't exist and nuclear landmines stuffed with chickens.
Discover the German submarines that caused havoc in the American desert, the playboy pilot they couldn't cage and the young lovers whose escape defied all odds.
The Japanese League of Blood that wants Chaplin dead A barking mad plan to create the Woofwaffe The one-man army with bazookas on his plane and beware Russian boy scouts bearing gifts.
The secret Nazi program that sounds like a Marvel movie The Mongol curse unleashed on Stalin's Russia Exploding cities that don't exist and nuclear landmines stuffed with chickens.
Ships don't have to be large to make history, like the 1776 gunboat built to stop a British invasion, or the remarkable story of the HA-19 sub.
Examine machines on the ground that would have fought in a nuclear war, featuring, amongst others, the 1961 tank standoff at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin when Soviet T-54 tanks faced off with American M-48 Patton tanks.
In any war, information is key. Examine the machines used to capture, transmit, and analyse vital combat information, featuring SOE agents and their equipment, spies stealing Royal Navy blueprints, and a daring submarine mission.
Examines the evolution of amphibious assault vehicles, including the restoration of Britain's last surviving LCT 7074 landing craft, designed to carry six Churchill tanks.
The mighty Flying Fortress takes to the air as we examine the background and development of one of WWIIs most iconic bombers.
The F15 Eagle immediately turned the tide of the first Gulf War to prove its greatness.
The World War II killings carried out by the Nazis on Alderney represent the worst mass murder in British history - yet no one has been brought to justice.
On the orders of Adolf Hitler, the Nazi invaders of Alderney utilised more than 5,000 slave labourers to build a series of protective fortifications.
Dr. Marcel Petiot, a respected French rural doctor and town mayor who is also a calculated and violent psychopath. During World War II, Petiot uses the confusion to prey on those most in fear for their lives - the Jews.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. Regarded as one of the most important aircraft of the Cold War. It was a major part of the United States Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and was also used by many other countries.
The Hawker Hurricane was the first RAF aircraft to fly over 300mph. Over half of every enemy aeroplane destroyed in the Battle of Britain was by a Hurricane, not a Spitfire.
In WWII, tanks, ships, and aircraft were well known, but there was also a whole fleet of lesser known vehicles such as the Jeep, the amphibious DUKW and a legendary American GI and his Harley motorbike.