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A confident and popular John F. Kennedy is sworn in as the youngest American president ever elected. Part 3 of 6.
In the final episode of a three-part drama-documentary series newly discovered documents reveal a remarkable web of misunderstandings that stopped the Spanish from invading, and show how the English victory forged the reputation of Elizabeth. Anita Dobson and Dan Snow present. Part 3 of 3. Ⓢ
Focusing on hunters and hunting, the brutal ending of a life, an act which sustains another’s. The hunt is by far the most dramatic event on the plains of the Serengeti. Part 3 of 12.
Historian Peter Barton explores the events leading up to and on the notoriously bloody first day of the offensive. Walking the battlefield, he explains the failures that led to over 20,000 British deaths, and how the Germans skilfully used the landscape of the Somme to maximise enemy casualties. Calling upon research in German archives, Barton shows just how much they knew in advance about Allied plans through captured documents and interrogations of captured British prisoners and deserters, who were persistently 'spilling the beans'. Part 1 of 3.
Heroes of the Somme uses original archive from the Western Front to uncover the stories of seven of the men whose remarkable bravery in 1916 won them the Victoria Cross, Britain’s most prized military medal.
