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Maiya May learns about the severe impacts of droughts and floods on agriculture and the alarming depletion of groundwater reserves. Despite these challenges, Maiya finds hope in innovative agricultural practices. Part 4 of 6.
Game of Thrones: Archaeologists conduct a dig at Auckland Castle in Co Durham, which 700 years ago was home to a group of power-crazed bishops. Part 4 of 6.
The walrus is one of the Arctic’s most enigmatic and social animals, relying on sea ice to live. Follow a palaeontologist who embarks on an Arctic adventure to see how these mammals are coping in a warming world.
Explore the most well-preserved battlefield in the world – a living testament to one of the U.S. Marines' most bitter and eye-opening fights in World War II.
American bombing pounds the Japanese home islands. Slave labour and sex slavery are evident. In August 1945, atomic bombs fall on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Calls for surrender are resisted and as agreed at Potsdam, the Red Army invades Manchuria. For the first time the Japanese hear the voice of their Emperor in a broadcast telling them to “bear the unbearable”. Finally, General MacArthur accepts Japan’s surrender on behalf of the Allied Powers. Japan begins the slow journey to miraculous recovery. Part 4 of 4. Ⓢ