Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical truths. Thus, we believe that Hiroshima caused Japan to surrender, that the Marshall Plan saved Europe, that Adolf Hitler was a military genius, or that Mao Zedong was a necessary evil for China’s modernization. Of course, these judgements contain some truth; but, too broad-stroked to be accurate, they contradict the historical reality by denying its complexity. What if the truth was slightly different? Through an exploration of great national or international myths, this full archive documentary collection revisits the key moments of the 20th century with a new perspective in order to provide a new, smarter and more subtle interpretation, bringing elements to light that have been forgotten or sometimes overshadowed.
Two-part documentary telling the story of the battle for control of the North Sea during the First W...
Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of the...
The True Believers is a 1988 Australian mini series which looks at the history of the Australian Lab...
Mike Brewer sets off on a journey of discovery to find out the story of one of the most remarkable a...
An epic yarn spanning most of the 18th century, the series follows Franklin's career from humble beg...
A multimedia course for secondary school and college teachers that examined global patterns through ...
Mickey Grosman, a former special forces demolitions expert took a group of amateur adventurers on a ...
Denmark is on the brink of bankruptcy when Conservative Poul Schlüter becomes prime minister in 1982...
This documentary series delves into the unseen histories of the 2000s decade, revealing dark secrets...
Anthropologist and author Richard Rudgley sets off on an epic journey back in time and around the wo...
Between 1914 and 1945, two major conflicts engulfed the planet. Among the combatants of the First Wo...
Submarines today are highly complex machines crammed with technology and weapons. As impressive as t...
Explores the Third Reich from a contemporary perspective to investigate how the Nazis managed to con...
Daniel Costelle and Isabelle Clarke have found at the NARA (National Archives in Washington DC) almo...
In the turbulent formative centuries of early Europe, power-hungry family dynasties fought for domin...