In February 1917 World War I is raging when Mata Hari is arrested in Paris and taken to the examining magistrate. Her very life is at stake: she is accused of high treason. The famous exotic dancer has come to represent beauty and the power of feminine seduction. The documentary Mata Hari - the Beautiful Spy tracks down the true story of this fascinating woman.
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After the war, hunger and adversity shape daily life in East Germany. Many Berliners go to the countryside in search of food. In the city, a notorious gang of youths is up to no good.
This episode explores the Vikings not as ruthless raiders but as groundbreaking seafarers, traders, and explorers. Master shipbuilders, they forged vast networks of commerce stretching from Europe to Asia and even reached the shores of America centuries before Columbus. By challenging the stereotype of violent marauders, the documentary presents the Vikings as a tolerant and skilled people whose innovations in navigation and trade reshaped medieval exploration and left an enduring mark on global history.
The Romans created one of the greatest empires in history, built with the help of an incredible army of professional legionnaires and a well-oiled political machinery. At its height, a few hundred men ruled over a fifth of mankind and an area stretching from Britain to Syria and from Gibraltar to the Euphrates. They undertook some of the most ambitious building projects of their time: endless roads, gigantic bridges and imposing aqueducts formed a complex infrastructure and left a lasting legacy. This film is a revelatory and unique journey into the world of ancient Rome.
Ancient Greece – the cradle of modern Europe. Around 3000 years ago, the cultural foundations of western civilisation were laid right here, on the shores of the Mediterranean. It's the birthplace of democracy, where great thinkers forged the beginnings of scientific reasoning, where theatre was turned into mass entertainment, and where the Olympic Games began. Imaginative animation, stunning visuals and an entertaining narrative combine in an extraordinary exploration of Greece and the rise of an ancient super-power that would leave a permanent mark on western society.
A German-Egyptian team is looking for traces of the largest temple of the pharaohs in the middle of Cairo and for answers as to why the sanctuary was abandoned more than 2000 years ago.
To many, Columbus is the man who discovered America. Yet, there had been others before him. This is their story!
The Incas appear out of nowhere and within a few decades their empire develops into the largest empire in the world at the time.
Discover how and why several brilliant scientists divulged the secrets of the atomic bomb.
Discover how a Soviet Intelligence officer avoided WWIII.
Discover a darkly humorous British ploy that helped the 1943 landing in Sicily.
Discover how agents tricked the Germans to keep their troops out of Normandy.
Germany, 1945. A nation faces up to the ruins of its past. Hunger and adversity shape daily life. What lengths did people go to? Over two episodes, Crime in Post-War Germany explores this transitional phase in German history by using the examples of individual, particularly serious criminal cases. Criminal psychologists and forensics experts go in search of traces.
Robbery, murder, rape. After the war, West Germany is the scene of brutal crimes. On the German-Belgian border, children risk their lives for something to eat.
After the war, hunger and adversity shape daily life in East Germany. Many Berliners go to the countryside in search of food. In the city, a notorious gang of youths is up to no good.
Having previously been dominated by the Empires of Russia, Germany and Austro-Hungary, many peoples of Eastern Europe had cherished hopes of gaining freedom after World War I.
The film "The Moon Landing and the Nazis" documents the involvement of German NASA employees with the Third Reich.
In this documentary, we get to the bottom of history's most popular myths. Archaeologists unearth ancient tombs and embark on underwater expeditions.
For our ancestors, the fear of the undead was very real. If you look beneath the earth you`ll find: bodies that have been weighted down with stones, tied up or even decapitated in their...
This documentary focuses on a spectacular discovery made in a quarry near the village of Eulau, not far from the central German town of Naumburg. Neolithic graves contained the skeletons of three women, two men and eight children, buried tenderly 4500 years ago, some affectionately entwined. In 2008, for the first time anywhere in the world, it was possible to perform a DNA analysis on the earliest evidence of the existence of a nuclear family. This was a sensation - but why did these people all die at the same time? Were they the victims of a violent crime? Who were they, and how did this terrible drama unfold? Archaeologists insist that these victims will not be forgotten, since these days it is possible to do far more than simply date and record such finds. Modern scientific methods have revolutionised archaeology, enabling us to discover how and why the family from Eulau in the German state of Sachsen-Anhalt died 4500 years ago. By enlisting the help of a CID profiler, archaeologists and anthropologists employ state-of-the-art analytical methods to investigate this Stone Age crime. In the process we discover key information about an era before recorded history which has previously been shrouded in mystery - and astonishing information about the composition of the population here also comes to light. It seems that the third millennium before Christ saw two major waves of migration, from Eastern and Western Europe, which determine the composition of the population here. In the middle of what is now Germany these two migratory movements met. Could this be the background to the mysterious murders of Eulau?
Hannibal's crossing of the Alps, one of the greatest military feats ever.
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