With advanced Holywood style CG effects this documentary examins the bloody and legendary Battle of Thermopylae
Dr Zahi Hawass and a team of archaeologists have selected the ten most important discoveries in Egypt. From major battles, to mega-construction, the discoveries uncover the amazing stories of the lives of kings, queens and ordinary people.
Simon Raikes and his team investigated the sources of Dan Brown`s theories and challenges them This documentary has aroused almost as much comment and controversy as did Brown’s novel among the reading and viewing public and the church
Is it brain-washing or like-mindedness? What attracts followers to cults and what holds them? This special feature-length documentary infiltrates the hidden world of these secretive groups
More than 2,000 years after he conquered the known world, Alexander the Great continues to fascinate. But what personal demons fueled Alexander’s unquenchable thirst for danger, fame and conquest?
The one-hour documentary examines the possible causes behind Egypt's downfall. Select images from NASA, along with global climate models and mapping reveal how changes half a world away triggered a chain of events that destroyed ancient Egypt.
Re-enactment documentary with the aid of actual footage methodically clocks through the cult’s final days, when Representative Leo Ryan of California’s 11th District arrived in Guyana with reporters and family members of People’s Temple followers to investigate continued complaints about Mr. Jones’s mistreatment of his supplicants. Just as the group was to leave, Mr. Jones’s gunmen killed Mr. Ryan and the defectors he was taking back to the United States. Cult members killed themselves later that day. [DUTCH SUBTITLES]
The history of how Eisntein's famous equation come to be
This documentary outlines how the racialist theories of the SS were drawn from archeology, myth and legend, as well as selected history. Nazi ideas about "Aryans" and the "master race" came out of historical and ethnic fantasies in which legends such as the Holy Grail and the lost city of Atlantis — supposed to be a home of the Aryan race — played their part.
The story of the expansion of the Roman Empire by means of amazing engineering feats. One of the more impressive anecdotes of this production is that the Roman aqueducts procured more water for the city of Rome during the Empire than New York City could supply its inhabitants in 1985
For four thousand years men have marvelled at the Great Pyramid of Giza and asked two questions: how was it built and why? To answer those questions we will travel back in time. By combining the latest archaeological research with the most up-to-date visual technology we can for the first time see the Pyramid through the eyes of the men who built it
ROME, The Power and Glory For over a thousand years, Rome was the centre of the known world. One of the most glorious empires in history, she brought to her subjects a common language, shared culture, and for some wealth beyond imagination.
An ignored chapter of history tells of a time when kings from deep in Africa conquered ancient Egypt
How was life in ancient Egypt? Historian Terry Jones (former Monty Python) show us what life may have been like to the ordinary people in ancient Egypt With good humor and equally good academic knowledge Jones bypasses the pharaohs to focus in the life of the regular people in ancient times
The history of Jim Jones and the massive suicide in Guyana
A close look into the life of the common citizen of the Roman Empire by the hand of historian and ex-Monty Python Terry Jones
Interesting insight into a gladiators life through a gladiator's eyes .... Travel back in time to the glamour and bloodshed of ancient Rome's gladiatorial world, where men fought for their lives to satisfy the whims of emperors and a bloodthirsty populace. Combining compelling narrative with state-of-the-art computer graphics and high-quality drama reconstruction, this production throws new light on the way gladiators really fought and trained, and reveals that many of them were the superstars of their age
From Egypt, China and the Mayans the history of the pyramids and the men that built them
A Look at four brilliant mathematicians - Georg Cantor, Ludwig Boltzmann, Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing - whose genius has profoundly affected us, but which tragically drove them insane and eventually led to them all committing suicide. PART 1
Archaeologists and scientists are providing answers to the oldest question in Egyptology: who built the pyramids? Excavators have made extraordinary finds: the actual tombs of the pyramid builders, plus large sections of their "town." Scientists have compiled details of their lives, including food, lifestyle, medical care, and even who they were.
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