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The Ancient Olympics

How did the Olympic Games begin? And why did the Games die out for over a thousand years?

• 50 mins

The Modern Olympics

The Modern Olympics has developed into the largest sporting festival in the world... How?

• 52 mins

Constantinople

Constantinople, the bridge between East and West, where ideas, trade, & people converged.

• 52 mins

The Northwest Passage

Who were the men who gave up everything to find the Northwest Passage?

• 52 mins

Elvis Presley

One of the best-selling solo music artists of all time: Elvis Presley

• 53 mins

The Normans

The Normans were a formidable force who left a lasting legacy across the British Isles

• 48 mins

The Gladiators

We're in Ancient Rome to discover the bizarre and barbaric world of the gladiators.

• 43 mins

The Kremlin

Over roughly a thousand years, the Kremlin has come to symbolise Russia itself.

• 54 mins

The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 1 of 2

Three men – Kennedy, Khrushchev, and Castro – hold the fate of the planet in their hands.

• 53 mins

Mary Queen of Scots

Was Mary Stuart an ambitious plotter who would stop at nothing to realise her dreams?

• 50 mins

The Cuban Missile Crisis, Part 2 of 2

With Soviet missiles on Cuban soil, The United States is now in Moscow's crosshairs.

• 45 mins

Sitting Bull

Sitting Bull was the greatest chief the Lakota people had ever known

• 53 mins

Blackbeard the Pirate

In the 18th century, one man makes his name as the most notorious pirate of all time...

• 55 mins

The Vietnam War

The Vietnam War was a brutal, un-winnable conflict which reshaped global geopolitics

• 54 mins