January 12, 2001 • 50m
Opened 70 years ago, the Empire State Building remains one of the enduring symbols of New York City. Tonight's programme explores ...Read more
January 19, 2001 • 50m
Heinrich Himmler was regarded as Hitler's most loyal henchman. But in the last days of the war, his role in a plot to make peace w...Read more
January 26, 2001 • 50m
Hollywood's portrayal of Thomas More, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor, is that of a saint but in truth he was a much more complex and...Read more
February 2, 2001 • 50m
Ten years into his reign, the notorious emperor Nero attempted to build the largest palace the Romans would ever see, the Domus Au...Read more
February 9, 2001 • 50m
During the Great Depression the American public looked for real-life anti-heroes to match the gangster movies - and found one in J...Read more
February 16, 2001 • 50m
In 1941 the first large-scale paratroop attack took place when Hitler ordered the invasion of Crete. Within a week Churchill gave ...Read more
May 11, 2001 • 50m
For Japanese officer Hiroo Onoda, the Second World War continued until 1974. Now 78 years old and living in Brazil, Onoda tells ho...Read more
May 18, 2001 • 50m
Archive footage and interviews, with among others the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, help recapture the balls, dresses, romances,...Read more
May 25, 2001 • 50m
Rex Bloomstein returns to find out what happened to some of the prisoners featured in the award-winning documentary series he made 21 years ago. 3/6.
June 1, 2001 • 50m
A documentary examining the mystery behind the demise in December 1943 of Germany's supposedly unsinkable warship, and a look at t...Read more
June 8, 2001 • 50m
Following guidelines described by the ancient author Vegetius nearly 2000 years ago, and supervised by historian Kate Gilliver, ni...Read more
August 23, 2001 • 50m
Towards the end of the Second World War, many German towns with minimal strategic or industrial importance suffered "saturation bo...Read more