January 29, 2005 • 50m
Criminologist David Wilson conducts an investigation into the death of Russia's first dictator, who ruled the country during the 1...Read more
March 4, 2005 • 50m
Rome, 81 BC: Sextus Roscius is accused of patricide. If found guilty, he faces a brutal execution. Defending him is a young lawyer...Read more
March 11, 2005 • 50m
When Stalin's death from a brain hemorrhage was announced in March 1953, the true details surrounding his death were immediately s...Read more
March 25, 2005 • 50m
Her romance with a dashing fighter pilot was the stuff of fairy tales - yet the prospect of marriage between the Queen's sister an...Read more
April 1, 2005 • 50m
It's 9am on 20 January 1607: a 12ft-high wall of water devastates the counties of the Bristol Channel, killing in the region of 2,...Read more
May 20, 2005 • 50m
A love of bloody spectacle led the Romans to build amphitheatres all over their Empire. In Britain there were at least 25, the lar...Read more
May 27, 2005 • 50m
Mount Tambora in eastern Indonesia unleashed the biggest volcanic blast ever in April 1815, a cataclysmic event that could have pr...Read more
November 4, 2005 • 50m
In 1605 a group of angry young Catholic men decided to wipe out the monarchy and government by blowing up the Houses of Parliament...Read more
November 11, 2005 • 50m
A focus on the man responsible for the deaths of almost two million Cambodians. Dramatic reconstructions, the testimony of acquain...Read more
November 18, 2005 • 50m
On 17 September 1940 a German U-boat attacked the evacuee ship SS Benares en route to Canada, killing 258 of the 401 on board, inc...Read more
November 25, 2005 • 50m
Psychological analysis of the biggest madman of the 20th century. How in 1943, a team of Harvard psychologists arrived at startlin...Read more