Das politische und wirtschaftliche Chaos das der Erste Weltkrieg hinterlässt, ermöglicht es Diktatoren wie Hitler oder Mussolini erheblich an Einfluss zu gewinnen. Erste aggressive politische Schritte bleiben für sie ohne ernstzunehmende Konsequenzen. Erst als Deutschland in mehr und mehr Gebiete einfiel, reagieren die anderen Großmächte. Doch um einen Krieg zu vermeiden, ist es bereits zu spät.

From a piece of meteorite found in Tutankhamun's tomb to the Crown of Thorns, explore some of the most perplexing and unusual objects lying hidden away in museums, laboratories and storage rooms

A portrait of Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat (1929-2004).

From bizarre ancient markings to random numbers and letters, codes and ciphers have been used for millennia to send secret messages, hide identities and operate outside the law. Unravelling these codes can unlock military secrets, unmask deadly enemies and even decode lost civilizations. Now, Cracking the Code uncovers some of the world’s most famous – and infamous – encryptions. Revealing how they were decoded, the brilliant minds who cracked them and the mysterious secrets they were hiding…

From tunnels to towers, artillery sites, resistance nests and communication centers, Nazi Germany left their footprint throughout the world. To this day, silent remains still exist, sentinels guarding clues about plots that Hitler was unable to carry out.

The collapse of the Third Reich left as many secrets as it did relics. Still today, remnants of the Nazi's schemes lie concealed in structures scattered across the globe. Skeletons of projects give way to mysteries. Conspiracies abound about science fiction scenarios. The Nazis were nothing if not methodical, and a deeper look reveals even darker plans. From tunnels to towers, artillery sites and communication centers; the remains of these schemes lie waiting to reveal truths about the Fuhrer's tactics and dreams in Secret Nazi Bases. What did Hitler have planned?

The history of military tanks unfolds in a documentary series that traces their role in history and geopolitics from World War I to the 21st century.

Russia’s War provides an important and in-depth account of the nation’s history throughout the period of Joseph Stalin's rule (1924-53). Told in ten parts, this astonishing documentary reveals eyewitness accounts, archival photography, documents and footage, and gives a remarkable insight into what let to the death of sixty-five million Soviets during Stalin’s reign of terror.

Thanks to unpublished testimonies and quality reconstructions, this series relates for the first time the most daring and delicate secret operations that the special forces have carried out in recent years.

An original perspective on how and why a generation of men and women living in a European society became the leaders of one of the most terrifying regimes of all time, responsible for 60 million deaths. Visiting the places where elite Nazi leaders grew up and the sites of their worst atrocities, James Ellis, a dedicated young historian, explores the defining moments which transformed everyday Germans into mass murderers.

Die Pyramidenbauer Ägyptens haben einzigartige Bauwerke erschaffen, Monumente einer fantastischen Zivilisation. In dieser Reihe wird die Pracht dieser antiken Welt wieder zum Leben erweckt. Dank der Forschung ist es möglich, die Geschichten der Menschen zu beleuchten, die am Bau der Pyramiden beteiligt waren. Das Streben der Pharaonen, ins Jenseits zu gelangen, hat das Leben von Zehntausenden Menschen beeinflusst und Ägypten für immer verändert.

It was an archaeological find that became global news. An extraordinary mega-tomb, filled with the largest concentration of coffins ever unearthed in Saqqara, Egypt. This four-part series places you at the site to witness this ground-breaking discovery as it happened and follows Egyptologists as they try to determine why all of these mummies were buried together and what this ancient cemetery can tell us about the Egyptian civilization's way of death 2,500 years ago.

Dokumentationsreihe, die einige der wichtigsten und bekanntesten Flugzeuge der Weltgeschichte vorstellt. Besonders auf die Kampfflieger des Zweiten Weltkriegs wird dabei Gewicht gelegt.

Sie gilt als das geheimnisvollste und wohl komplexeste Buch der Bibel: die Offenbarung des Johannes, auch Apokalypse genannt. Ob es tatsächlich der Apostel Johannes war, der seine Visionen an sieben Gemeinden in der heutigen Türkei geschickt hat, ist umstritten. Doch die orthodoxe Glaubenstradition ist sich sicher: Es war der Apostel und Donnersohn Johannes. Filmemacher Christophe Hanauer macht sich auf den Weg, die sieben Gemeinden, die Johannes’ Sendschreiben erhielten, zu erforschen.

On April 26, 1986 Reactor 4 of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, releasing clouds of radioactive fallout into the atmosphere. With access to hundreds of declassified KGB documents, Chernobyl: The New Evidence reveals the serious concerns of the KGB, the sacrifices the Soviet leadership were willing to make to keep the story quiet and the bravery that saved the world from an even more deadly disaster.

Das Leben und der Tod der letzten Königin von Ägypten sind von zahlreichen Sagen umwoben. Ein Team von Archäologen sucht nach der bislang unbekannten Grabstätte Kleopatras, um die historische Realität hinter den Sagen aufzudecken.