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Monopoly is America’s favourite board game, a love letter to unbridled capitalism and our free market society. But behind the myth of the game’s creation is an untold tale of theft, obsession, and corporate double-dealing.
During the Cold War, the border between Czechoslovakia and the West became a scene of high drama. Between 1945 and 1989 several hundred people lost their lives. Thirty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, justice is now being served: German and Czech public prosecutors are trying to bring the truth to light. We reconstruct the events through the eyes of perpetrators, victims, bereaved families and those responsible.
Learn how animals use all sorts of strategies to protect their families and food from marauders. Part 4 of 12.
Buffalo Soldiers: Fighting on Two Fronts explores the often-contradictory role played by Black soldiers throughout American history, with particular emphasis on the settling of the American West and colonialism abroad.
Rare film footage, restored and colourised for the first time, provides an intimate window into how everyday Edwardians lived, worked, and socialised. We see the great state occasion of Queen Victoria’s funeral in 1901, footage of life in the Lancashire coalfields, and we also see footage of days out, parades, fun parks, and seaside holidays. Part 1 of 2.
As the Allies advance, soldiers uncover mass graves and liberate German concentration camps, revealing the sheer scale of the Holocaust. The danger of its reverberations becomes apparent. Part 6 of 6.
Dr Janina Ramirez explores the fallout of the longest and bloodiest divorce in history, when little England dared to take on the superpower France. Edward III rips up the medieval rule book and crushes the flower of French knighthood at the Battle of Crecy with his low-born archers. His son, the Black Prince, conducts a campaign of terror, helping to bring France to her knees. Part 1 of 3.
