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The Relief of Belsen
1 Episode
Favourite ShowPowerful and moving feature-length drama, which reveals the extraordinary story of one of the most heroic medical relief operations in European history
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The Somme
1 Episode
Favourite ShowTold through letters, diaries and journals written at the time, the film draws on the thoughts and feelings of the men who fought there to capture the eyewitness experience of the Battle of the Somme
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The Great Escape: The Reckoning
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThe true story of the 76 Allied airmen who famously escaped from Stalag Luft in 1944, and the subsequent hunt for the Gestapo officers who executed 50 of the re-captured airmen
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The Untold Battle of Britain
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThe story of 303 Squadron: 34 Polish fighter pilots who overturned RAF prejudices to earn their chance to fight in the Battle of Britain, in which they shot down 126 Luftwaffe aircraft
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The Valley
1 Episode
Favourite ShowAward-winning documentary that focuses specifically on the conflict in the Drenica Valley of Kosovo during the late 1990s
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Hell in the Pacific
4 Episodes
Favourite ShowHell in the Pacific is a compelling and provocative four part series accounting the shocking Second World War conflict in the East
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Sex and the Swastika
1 Episode
Favourite ShowLocated in the English countryside, a secret division created 'Black' propaganda and disseminated pornography to German troops and civilians illustrating the sexual perversions of their leaders
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Quest for the Lost Civilisation
3 Episodes
Favourite ShowBeneath the Pacific Ocean off a small Japanese island, is an underwater mystery that could rewrite our human history. Graham Hancock goes on a quest to trace the remains of a lost civilisation
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Time Team
16 Series, 173 Episodes
Favourite ShowIn this popular and (literally) groundbreaking programme, Tony Robinson and a team of experts travel the country to investigate a wide range of archaeological sites of historical importance
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Six Wives of Henry VIII
4 Episodes
Favourite ShowThrough dramatic reconstructions and his own passionate narration, Dr David Starkey, the controversial Tudor historian, profiles the six women who married Henry Vlll
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Sex and the Swastika
1 Episode
Favourite ShowLocated in the English countryside, a secret division created 'Black' propaganda and disseminated pornography to German troops and civilians illustrating the sexual perversions of their leaders
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Monarchy
3 Series, 11 Episodes
Favourite ShowDr David Starkey's complete history of the British Monarchy, which reveals the epic and bloody stories of our Kings and Queens and charts the course of the oldest surviving political institution in Europe
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The Mystery of the Cocaine Mummies
1 Episode
Favourite ShowDocumentary questioning whether mummies found with high levels of cocaine provide proof of early trade routes between Egypt and South America
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Secrets of the Stone Age
3 Episodes
Favourite ShowAnthropologist and author Richard Rudgley sets off on an epic journey back in time and around the world to discover the real roots of civilisation
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Upstairs Downstairs Love
1 Episode
Favourite ShowThe remarkable real life story of barrister Arthur Munby and his servant lover Hannah Cullwick whose relationship transgressed the strict moral codes of nineteenth century Britain
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The 1900 House
10 Episodes
Favourite ShowIn an experiment in living history to investigate how radically our lives have been changed by technology in the last 100 years, a modern family swap the luxury of1999 for a life of urban Victorian domesticity
