January 12, 1994 • 50m
One In four British merchant seamen died during the Second World War. Life on board ship was dangerous, poorly paid and carried a ...Read more
January 26, 1994 • 50m
When Grigorii Efimovich Rasputin was murdered in 1916, rumour and political expediency set to work to paint him as a villain, resp...Read more
February 9, 1994 • 50m
Since 1949, dozens of planes and up to 200 US, British and allied air-crew have been lost in an undeclared aerial espionage war be...Read more
March 9, 1994 • 50m
In the decades leading up to reform of the divorce laws in 1969, thousands of women suffered the injustices of a system that treat...Read more
April 6, 1994 • 50m
While the British government publicly operated an open-door policy to immigrants, in private it was terrified about the growing bl...Read more
June 26, 1994 • 1h
The question of how the First World War was started has been one of the great controversies of the 20th century. The flashpoint wa...Read more
November 6, 1994 • 50m
An entire popular mythology has made the Spanish Inquisition a byword for human evil - sadistic, fanatical and omnipotent. But in ...Read more
November 13, 1994 • 50m
In the final few months of the Second World War, Hitler's revolutionary V1 and V2 missiles terrorised southern England. In London ...Read more
November 20, 1994 • 50m
A film about the horrors of the English Civil War, using letters, diaries and memoirs of ordinary people in 17th-century England. ...Read more
November 27, 1994 • 50m
The tale of one man's attempt to rewrite the history of the world by redating Egypt's greatest mystery, the Sphinx. Until now, no ...Read more
December 4, 1994 • 1h
In the centenary year of his birth, and using previously unseen home movies, this film explores the contradictions of the Ukrainia...Read more
December 11, 1994 • 50m
Niccolo Machiavelli's name is synonymous with political intrigue, but recent analysis of his work suggests that he was a political...Read more
December 18, 1994 • 55m
Story of the woman judged to be such a danger to public health that she was incarcerated by the city of New York for 23 years. In ...Read more
January 1, 1970
Episode 96 of Season 13 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 98 of Season 13 premiered on January 1, 1970
January 1, 1970
Episode 99 of Season 13 premiered on January 1, 1970