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.

Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmenta...

Days That Shook the World is a British documentary television series that premiered on BBC Two on 17...

How the constitution of the largest Democratic Republic in the world was created.

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Comprised entirely of re-mastered and colorised archive footage from World War II, much of it never ...

A documentary which explores the remarkable parallels between the careers of Adolf Hitler and Winsto...

The three-part documentary series, compiled from over 60 hours of unseen footage, captures the warmt...

In this adaptation of the award-winning podcast, Slow Burn’s Leon Neyfakh excavates the strange subp...

How the Silk Road Made the World 3 x 60' NHNZ/CCTV (China Central Television) The Silk Road is on...

Featuring interviews with his followers, critics and Raël himself, this docuseries traces how a UFO-...

Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J....

For centuries, explorers have searched for the Bible’s most sacred religious artefacts. One of the m...

One of the most important historical investigations carried out by Rai, signed by the great Sergio Z...

Unknown histories take center stage as the hitmakers themselves - from ABBA to T-Pain - explore dime...

The story of how women have fought their way into the world of sport, an arena jealously guarded by ...