Season 10 (1991)

Savagery and the American Indian: 1: Wilderness
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January 23, 1991 • 50m

Historians and archaeologists have started to reassess some of the ingrained myths of American history. American Indians lived in ...Read more

Savagery and the American Indian: 2: Civilisation
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January 30, 1991 • 50m

Every year the Sioux nation of South Dakota pays homage to more than 300 unarmed Indians killed by US troops on 29 December 1890. ...Read more

The Man Who Made the Supergun
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February 13, 1991 • 50m

The assassination a year ago of Dr Gerald Bull prevented Saddam Hussein from acquiring a 'supergun'. Bull designed the world's bes...Read more

Reluctant Comrade
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February 27, 1991 • 50m

In 1934, Robert Robinson, a young black car worker from Detroit, was blacklisted by America after renewing a short-term contract f...Read more

The Transmission of Roger Bacon
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March 13, 1991 • 50m

A death ray to combat the Antichrist; the effectiveness of astrology; the bizarre sexual practices of the Brahmins; and the imposs...Read more

Palestine: The First Intifada
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March 27, 1991 • 50m

For the last three years Palestinians have been involved in an Intifada against the Israeli occupation of their homeland; 50 years...Read more

A Cold War
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April 10, 1991 • 50m

In 1945 Britain, America and the USSR were allies against Hitler; less than a year later Winston Churchill condemned Soviet expans...Read more

Beside Franco in Spain
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September 18, 1991 • 1h

The story of how Britain abandoned Spain's democratically elected government during the Spanish Civil War of 1936 and gave clandes...Read more

Charles Darwin - Devil's Chaplain
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October 2, 1991 • 50m

Charles Darwin lived in fear of disgrace because of his views. He believed that humans were just a better sort of ape, that we evo...Read more

The Columbus Conspiracy
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October 16, 1991 • 50m

Was Columbus really the first to discover America? Five hundred years ago three ships sailed from Spain on the most famous voyage ...Read more

Harvests of Iron: 1: The Watch on the Somme
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October 30, 1991 • 50m

In the first of two programmes about the First World War, German writer Ludwig Harig makes a pilgrimage to the Somme, hoping to un...Read more

Harvests of Iron: 2: The Theatre of Operations
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November 6, 1991 • 50m

The letters between military surgeon Georges Duhamel and his wife Blanche lay forgotten in a family attic for 75 years. Recently r...Read more

Suffer the Children
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November 20, 1991 • 50m

In the 1830s a pioneering social investigation into child labour uncovered an appalling picture of deprivation, poverty and remors...Read more

The Spoils of War
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December 18, 1991 • 50m

During the Second World War, the Nazis took many art treasures for "care and safe-keeping", including the priceless collection of ...Read more

Episode 98
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January 1, 1970

Episode 98 of Season 10 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 99
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January 1, 1970

Episode 99 of Season 10 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 100
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January 1, 1970

Episode 100 of Season 10 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 120
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January 1, 1970

Episode 120 of Season 10 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 130
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January 1, 1970

Episode 130 of Season 10 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 140
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January 1, 1970

Episode 140 of Season 10 premiered on January 1, 1970

Episode 220
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January 1, 1970

Episode 220 of Season 10 premiered on January 1, 1970