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Battlefield Britain

Battlefield Britain...

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Britain is a country that has been forged by centuries of warfare. Each episode charts one key battle which could have gone either way, and did ...

Barbarians

Barbarians...

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They were the dreaded forces on the fringes of civilization, the bloodthirsty warriors who defied the Roman legions and terrorized the people of Europe. They ...

The Four-Winged Dinosaur

The Four-Winged Dino...

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In 2002, the discovery of a beautiful and bizarre fossil astonished scientists and reignited the debate over the origin of flight. With four wings and ...

Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites

Kingdom of David: Th...

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Originally intended as a four-part miniseries, Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites made its U.S. debut as a two-part PBS special on May ...

Cracking the Maya Code

Cracking the Maya Co...

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This one-hour program is divided into five chapters. The Forgotten Maya Temples. In 1774, Spanish explorer Jose Calderon rediscovers the temples of Palenque and the ...

The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

The Medici: Godfathe...

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From a small Italian community in 15th-century Florence, the Medici family would rise to rule Europe in many ways. Using charm, patronage, skill, duplicity and ...

The Roman Empire in the First Century

The Roman Empire in ...

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Two thousand years ago, the world was ruled by Rome. From England to Africa and from Syria to Spain, one in every four people on ...

Secrets of the Lost Empire

Secrets of the Lost ...

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Discover how ancient Egyptians used nautical experience, ingenuity, and unwavering faith to raise massive 500-ton granite monoliths that have stood for thousands of years in ...

The Century of the Self

The Century of the S...

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This series is about how those in power have used Freud’s theories to try and control the dangerous crowd in an age of mass democracy. ...

Slavery: A Global Investigation

Slavery: A Global In...

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The global economy has created immense wealth in the West, but it has also spawned a sinister new market in slaves – in Africa, Asia ...

Egypt’s Golden Empire

Egypt’s Golden Emp...

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Over 3,500 years ago, Rome was no more than a soggy marsh and the Acropolis was just an empty rock, but Egypt was on the ...

Magical Egypt

Magical Egypt...

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There is another side of Egypt that is not so widely known. Egypt is also the land of secrets. Another history, a secret history, tells ...