January 1, 1970 • 30m
Johannes Gutenberg was recently hailed as the most important man of the Millennium. After years of painstaking development he perf...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
After this triumphant return from the new world Jacques Cartier does Larry King and Barbara Walters to show of his native hostages...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
It's the hostage crisis of century, as the Scandinavian Mafia demand tons of silver for the Archbishop of Canterbury. In medieval ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Live News coverage as the first Crusaders reach Jerusalem and send everyone straight to a Christian heaven. Barbara Walters gets u...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
The famous French maiden Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) opens up to Barbara Walters, before heading off to rally the French army to vi...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
The leader of the world's most powerful nation is caught dallying with a woman half is age. Yes, it's King David and Bathsheba in ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Michelangelo's biblical epic, a full-colour, wide-ceiling painting, premieres to astounded audiences and delighted critics. But th...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
It's live news coverage of a breaking story. Mideast leader Moses threatens to bring plagues on the Egyptians until they let his p...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Renaissance thinker Galileo Galilei is on trial for suggesting the sun is the center of the universe. And the old geezer cuts a de...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Genghis Khan and his Mongol hordes are legendary. Yet few people today know about Tamerlane, the last and by far the worst of the ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
In the fifteenth century, as Europe emerged from the Dark Ages, the world's biggest superpower was a world away, China. Their navy...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Hildegarde Von Bingen is one of the bright lights of the Dark Ages. She even sees bright lights. Barbara Walters interviews with m...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Do you think investing is risky these days? In the 1730's the Dutch freaked for flowers, and tulip bulbs became the hottest invest...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
It's live coverage of the most infamous leadership race of the Roman Empire. Who will win the office of Emperor and power over the...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Canada's French/English debate heats up on the Plains of Abraham, as Montcalm and Wolfe try to prove who's more incompetent. Elsew...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
The original Great Wall of China was not built with stone, but with dirt. Dirt and the dead bodies of a lot of workers, according ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
If you've seen the movie ""Independence Day"" you know how vulnerable Washington and the White House are to alien invaders. Well i...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
The first Battle of Thermopylae may well be the most lopsided confrontation in history. Tens of thousands of invading Persians run...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
A crime wave, gangs of criminals, Oz, incarceration. No, it's not the TV drama ""Oz"", it's England in the 1780s! Crime is rampant...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
The western half of the Roman Empire has fallen a century before. But the eastern half, with it's capital in Constantinople, lived...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
There are many wild tales involving the buccaneers of the high seas, but the capture and trial of two women pirates, Anne Bonney a...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
Catherine the Great ruled Russia with an firm hand. However she faced a lot of opposition from her dead husband, who kept reappear...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
The true story of Sir Francis Drake's famous victory over the Spanish Armada. As life coverage of the battle reveals, it's a combi...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
In the fourth century both Christianity and the traditionally pagan Roman Empire are wracked by arguments over beliefs and dogma. ...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
The breaking story of one of the great disasters in History, the eruption of Mount Vesuvius that buried, and ultimatley preserved,...Read more
January 1, 1970 • 30m
If you think people are over reacting to the year 2000, wait till you see the terror of the original Millennium. There's something...Read more