January 5, 2008 • 50m
In July 2007, 61 men and women set off on an extraordinary voyage to sail the world's largest reconstructed Viking ship from Denma...Read more
January 6, 2008 • 1h
The D-Day landing at Omaha Beach in Normandy on 6 June 1944 is widely regarded as a great victory, but the operation was almost an...Read more
January 12, 2008 • 50m
In January 2007 the MSC Napoli ran aground, spilling its cargo on a Devon beach. Opportunists plundered the ship's booty while the...Read more
January 19, 2008 • 50m
The medieval mêlée tournament was a brutal free-for-all with sharpened weapons, few rules, and one undisputed champion: William Ma...Read more
January 26, 2008 • 50m
More than 3,000 years ago the rebel Pharaoh Akhenaten marched his people from Thebes to a desert plain beside the Nile. Within 20 ...Read more
February 2, 2008 • 50m
Some 30,000 Brits head for Australia each year - just a fraction of the one million who gambled on the ten-pound assisted-passage ...Read more
September 27, 2008 • 55m
Experts have always believed that Britain's most iconic ancient monument was designed as a burial site. Two years ago a radical ne...Read more
October 4, 2008 • 55m
The Asian tsunami of 2004 was a devastating natural disaster of epic proportions. Many believe a huge wave on this scale couldn't ...Read more
October 11, 2008 • 55m
Peking, June 1900: The "Society of Right and Harmonious Fists", known by Europeans as the Boxers, entrapped more than 3,000 foreig...Read more
October 18, 2008 • 50m
How did an unassuming little girl become the most powerful woman in the world? At her birth, few believed Princess Victoria would ...Read more
November 1, 2008 • 1h
Michael Palin tells the explosive, poignant story of the First World War's final day, which marks the start of the BBC's 90 Years ...Read more