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- CreatorNick LondonStarsPaul McGannNigel AnthonyChris PlumleyHistorical events are extensively re-explored both through written records and systematic examinations in the field.
- DirectorDaniel JonesStarsPhilip GardinerO.H. KrillAmerica, a land of extremes, where wealth and poverty walk side by side. Thousands of amazing cities of light, full of multi-ethnic individuals all chasing the dream. Wild frontiers of natural beauty and danger. The world's biggest, smallest, loudest and fastest of everything. Incredible landscapes, incredible people, incredible history. A place where freedom of speech, thought, religion and politics are espoused and held dear. But is America truly the home of the brave and the land of the free? John F. Kennedy once said: "The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings." But is this really the truth? Is America the nation, the result of just a series of events or is it part of some grand design from some even grander architect? In "A Secret History," we uncover the true origin of the United States of America and explore the occult origins of its signs and symbols - discovering that Freemasonic and Illuminati secret societies are responsible for how we live our daily lives in this modern world. Discover the ruling elite who have been orchestrating the world we know for centuries and who sparked a global revolution and created the most powerful nation on the planet - a grand design put into action and still present today.
- StarsMegan McCormickEstelle BinghamJustine ShapiroMegan McCormick brings to us the beautiful and violent history of the Middle History. With her memories of her journeys to Egypt, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates and Oman, and the help of Ian Wright (in Iran, Jordan, Syria and Lebanon), Justine Shapiro (in Turkey, Israel and Palestine) and Estelle Bingham (in Istanbul and Cairo), she remembers the most important events in the history of the Middle East: its empires, its religions, its wars, and its present day situation.
- StarsJosh BrolinRichard MachowiczJames MeigsFrom the power of science to how physics and biology combined to shape our shared journey, experience the human story like it's never been told before.
- StarsAndrew MarrPierre MaraisJoe VazAndrew Marr explores key events across 70,000 years of human civilization, from ancient empires to modern technological marvels, through re-enactments and global filming in this thought-provoking documentary series.
- StarsHelen CastorCarol RawcliffeRoberta GilchristIn Medieval Lives: Birth, Marriage, Death, historian and author Dr. Helen Castor (She-Wolves: England's Early Queens) examines how the people of the Middle Ages handled three of life's great rites of passage birth, marriage, and death. Why were physicians of no help to women enduring the pains of labor and the dangers of childbirth? Why were newly married couples "put to bed" by the priest on their wedding night? What did it mean to "die well" and why was death such a communal affair, both before and after it happened?
- StarsTerry JonesPeter BarberFaye GetzTerry Jones hosts this series that looks at the real facts about the Middle Ages and its roots.
- StarsTerry JonesPeter HeatherPope Benedict XVITerry Jones challenges the received Roman and Roman Catholic notion of the 'barbarian'.
- DirectorPhil GrabskyStarsTerry JonesJoann FletcherAzza Sarry el-DinBringing to life the everyday details of the ancients Egyptians - bizarre, hilarious or shocking - this wonderfully entertaining and factually revealing film is packed full of surprises. With Jones throwing informed yet sometimes crazed light on the subject, a previously hidden world of the ancient Egyptians is wonderfully brought to life.
- StarsTerry JonesMarcello WaltonKammy DarweishTerry Jones presents the history of the medieval religious wars in the middle-east known as the Crusades.
- StarsRobert BartlettHugh GilbertIn Inside the Medieval Mind, one of the world's greatest authorities on the Middle Ages, Professor Robert Bartlett of St Andrews University, investigates the intellectual landscape of the medieval world. In this series he opens up the often surprising discontinuities and similarities between the medieval age and our own as he remarks: "In many ways these were people very much like us, in terms of family, ambitions for children and the world of emotions. On the other hand, they inhabited a very different world, in which it was believed the dead visited the living, and where somewhere there lived a race of people with the heads of dogs." The series comprises four one hour programmes, each on a different aspect of medieval thinking: Belief; Sex; Power; Knowledge. During the series he visits numerous medieval locations, from Westminster Abbey to Pluscarden Abbey near Inverness, with wide use of readings from original medieval sources.
- StarsMichael CarrollPeter WellerJ.J. HuckinA series of documentaries that go over the world's history and it's many accomplishments.
- StarsBettany HughesRay LonnenMargaret RobertsonA history of the ancient Spartans, featuring historian Bettany Hughes as presenter and narrator.
- StarsMary BeardIn this four-part series classicist and historian, Professor Mary Beard draws on her immense scholarship, unique viewpoints and myth-busting approach to Roman history, to give her definitive take on the Roman Empire. How and why did it happen? In search of answers, she takes us to the most telling sites and the most revealing artifacts, and she examines the legacy the Roman Empire has left behind.
- StarsBettany HughesMarek LichtenbergMarcel DorianHistorian Bettany Hughes selects eight pivotal days that defined the Roman Empire and its establishment as the world's first superpower.
- DirectorChristopher CasselStarsPhilip DaileaderKelly DeVriesBonnie EffrosThe History Channel examines the Dark Ages from the fall of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade.
- StarsMichael MosleySimon ChaplinFloor LagerweyMichael Mosley takes an informative and ambitious journey exploring how the evolution of scientific understanding is intimately interwoven with society's historical path.
- StarsJonathan PhillipsRoger CrowleyBarnaby RogersonThroughout history, great empires have come and gone, leaving behind great monuments. From the Roman Empire, to the earliest civilizations of the Americas, this ten part series investigates these mighty civilizations.
- StarsJoann FletcherChris NauntonGlenn GodenhoJoann Fletcher presents the extraordinary story of Ancient Egypt, from its beginnings to the great pyramid builders and on, to the last of the pharaohs.
- StarsDerek PartridgeJohn Anthony WestChance GardnerGrowing evidence is suggesting a missing chapter in human history. West explores evidence of a sophisticated science behind the unexplainable accomplishments of Ancient Egypt, the inheritor of knowledge from an even earlier civilization?
- CreatorUwe KerskenStarsTom ZahnerKent WeeksSalima IkramPlanet Egypt recounts the epic history of Ancient Egypt and its Pharaohs, from the pre-dynastic period through to the late dynasties. Each episode addresses one aspect of Egypt's enormous success, including the unlikely rise of its first powerful rulers, the wars they fought, the spiritual grounding that held the society together and the grand quest for immortality pursued by the Pharaohs.
- DirectorPhil GrabskyStarsTerry JonesRick JonesElizabeth FentressWho better to scrutinize and investigate the quirkier achievements of the impressive and expansive Roman Empire than co-creator of the brilliantly accomplished question; 'What have the Romans ever done for us'? Terry Jones is in search of an answer. Unearthing the secrets of the Roman world in his own idiosyncratic and bizarre way, he reveals how ordinary people really lived in ancient Rome.