January 14, 1996 • 50m
The temple at Karnak in Egypt, founded around 1500 BC, was the greatest religious shrine of the ancient world, taking 2,000 years ...Read more
January 21, 1996 • 50m
Some historians have always suspected that Stalin was behind the Korean War, but the Soviets have denied involvement. By obtaining...Read more
January 28, 1996 • 50m
Four hundred years ago today, Sir Francis Drake was buried at sea off the coast of Panama after unsuccessfully trying to recapture...Read more
February 4, 1996 • 50m
A 1973 documentary from the 'Man Alive' series portrayed the lives of six teenage male offenders and their time in Peper Harow, a ...Read more
February 11, 1996 • 50m
Had documentary film-makers roamed the streets of London in the mid-19th century, they would have encountered an extraordinary ran...Read more
July 3, 1996 • 50m
A special edition of the historical documentary series. Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig has been lampooned as the worst type of Br...Read more
September 10, 1996 • 50m
When General Norman Schwarzkopf planned and executed the Gulf War's "Desert Storm", he looked to the history books for his strateg...Read more
September 17, 1996 • 50m
Rennes-le-Chateau in southern France is home to one of the century's greatest conspiracy theories. For over a century there have b...Read more
September 24, 1996 • 50m
A hundred years ago, gold was discovered on a tributary of the Klondike River in north-west Canada, sparking off an extraordinary ...Read more
October 1, 1996 • 50m
For half a century the Soviet Union's labour camps made virtual slaves of millions of Russians. Tens of thousands of foreigners we...Read more
October 8, 1996 • 50m
From 1948-64 Curtis E LeMay and Thomas Power controlled the nuclear bombers and missiles of the USA's Strategic Air Command, the m...Read more
October 15, 1996 • 50m
Tonight's documentary visits the small mining village in South Wales where, in October 1966, disaster struck when a coal tip above...Read more
October 22, 1996 • 50m
Forty years ago this week, thousands of Hungarians demonstrated on the streets of Budapest in protest against Soviet occupation of...Read more