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The Copper Scroll may hold the secret to the location of the Ark of the Covenant, but experts must decode it in order to find its legendary treasure trove. Part 2 of 6.
Carmine Galante wielded massive power despite spending most of his career behind bars because Galante made heroin his main money spinner. Part 7 of 13.
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.
1918. As the Armistice bells ring out across the world to celebrate the end of the Great War, a silent killer makes its way home with the soldiers. The Spanish Flu will kill up to one third of the world’s population, more than both world wars combined. From the soldier who carried the virus to the Western Front, to the doctor who started the fightback, follow the compelling human stories behind this seismic chapter of history. With new evidence revealed for the first time, this documentary tracks the dramatic race to stop the pathogen spreading.
Thirty miles from mainland Scotland, there’s a chain of low-lying islands that face the full might of the Atlantic Ocean: the Uists and Benbecula where a spectacular patchwork of freshwater lochs and pools pockmark the landscape. Part 2 of 6.