A look back at a cruel conflict, the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71), which changed the political geography of Europe and sowed the seeds of a deep antagonism between France and Germany that culminated in two world wars. Excerpts from the diaries of the witnesses, photographs and painted panoramas tell the truth about a forgotten war.
The Hundred Years’ war between England and France gave us the victories of Crecy and Agincourt, and ...
Sandburg's Lincoln is a six-part mini-series starring Hal Holbrook as Abraham Lincoln, the sixteenth...
Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises t...
In September 1897, 21 soldiers of the 36th Sikh regiment of the British Indian Army defend an army o...
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional Br...
The life of German thinker Karl Marx, focusing on his political and economic theories, his romance w...
Dr James Fox tells the story of three cities in three exceptional years - cities whose artists and t...
From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European cou...
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution...
Judi Dench is setting out on a trip of a lifetime to uncover the lush rainforests, magical wildlife ...
Ian Hislop rescues the reputation of the maverick 'Do-Gooders' who he believes fixed the 19th centur...
The history of decolonization from the point of view of colonized peoples, an epic story that still ...