How was it possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power?

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Tony Robinson heads off to the old market town of Appleby in Cumbria and is brought face to face with the hardships of our early prisons. A police station is on the site of no fewer than three historic gaols, now buried under the car park. While hunt

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Five hundred years ago, a major city occupied what is now a large and empty field in the Scottish Borders. Founded by a king as a hub for international trade, Roxburgh was, along with Edinburgh, Stirling and Berwick, one of the four great centres of

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Treasure hunting begins at home. Host John Sencio ventures into homeowners' attics, basements and garages searching for those not-so-obvious family antiques that they sell at auction.

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Examines US intelligence gathering-from inception in the 1920s and development during WWII through the Office of Strategic Services and the Allied Intelligence Bureau. We also look at the darker side. Did the CIA strike a deal with Nazi war criminals

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In 1956, an object was detected over the North Sea heading toward Bentwaters RAF base, a base with nuclear weapons. Two Venom fighters made contact with the object, but their weapons and electrical systems were rendered useless. Both ground crew and

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A gripping adventure about WWII combat, the diamond trade, Nazi death camps, buried treasure and unconscionable greed. In 1945, two American soldiers in the 7th Army gad killed a group of German SS officers as they were dividing up 40 uncut diamonds.

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How was it possible that a cultured nation at the heart of Europe ever allowed Hitler and the Nazi party to come to power?

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Some were masters of military strategy, daring and dashing battlefield commanders. Others blundered fatally and lost the day. All had a date with destiny and would write their name into the pages of military history. The Great Lives series brings net

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Building Britain, includes the best and most beautiful houses in the country: Britain contains a greater variety of domestic architecture than almost anywhere else in the world and the story of Building Britain is wrapped up in the country's history.

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Around the turn of the first millennium Leif Eriksson sailed west and discovered North America. This daredevil Viking sailed from Iceland, via Greenland, the Canadian Arctic to New Foundland to build the first "European" settlement on the new contine

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After the loss of HMS Hood, Britain is in a state of shock, its capital ship sunk by just one shell. Churchill has ordered every British warship or plane within striking distance to sink the Bismarck! This second feature-length documentary reveals th

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After the smoke cleared on that fateful day in Tombstone in the autumn of 1881 with Tom McLaury, his brother Frank and Billy Clanton lying dead in the dusty street, Wyatt Earp wasn't seen as a hero but a villain. The legendary lawman was arrested and

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The ultimate series on the fight against the Mafia, told by the people who tried to stop them - the FBI. The stories involve many twists and turns as the Mafia tried to combat the FBI by recruiting FBI agents into their pay. It will feature dramatic

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A fascinating combination of history, science and archaeology that traces the changing rules humanity set itself for sex, from the Stone Age to ancient Egypt and Greece.

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Alien abduction is a common and highly documented phenomenon; proof of alien abduction in the form of objects implanted in people's bodies is not. This episode chronicles several close encounters with alien abductees who have been held captive, probe

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UFOs sightings are more common among police offices than you might believe and many have witnessed things they can't explain. Travel the U.S. and abroad to hear first hand accounts from seasoned, decorated police officers who have had unbelievable, b

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We tell the story of The Great Train Robbery through the eyes of the mastermind behind the heist, Bruce Reynolds and how he stole 2.6 million pounds in 1963.

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Around the turn of the first millennium Leif Eriksson sailed west and discovered North America. This daredevil Viking sailed from Iceland, via Greenland, the Canadian Arctic to New Foundland to build the first "European" settlement on the new contine

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After the loss of HMS Hood, Britain is in a state of shock, its capital ship sunk by just one shell. Churchill has ordered every British warship or plane within striking distance to sink the Bismarck! This second feature-length documentary reveals th

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After the smoke cleared on that fateful day in Tombstone in the autumn of 1881 with Tom McLaury, his brother Frank and Billy Clanton lying dead in the dusty street, Wyatt Earp wasn't seen as a hero but a villain. The legendary lawman was arrested and

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