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.
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Award-winning journalist and author Chris Masters investigates the tumultuous 1920s and 1930s and th...
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A lecture series about the basic problems of flight, explained by visual presentation of flow experi...
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Examining the life and times of Adolf Hitler and following the full arc of his ascent, tyrannical re...
The story of how the Battleship was used and not used as the ultimate weapon of war during its day u...
Mickey Grosman, a former special forces demolitions expert took a group of amateur adventurers on a ...
Dr Xand van Tulleken and archaeologist Raksha Dave tell the brutal story of one of the most bloody a...