 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Documentaries in the History category
Gladiators : Back from the Dead
Release Date: Jun 14, 2010 Category: History Documentaries Up to a million gladiators are thought to have died in arenas across the Roman Empire. And, apart from ancient Italy itself, Roman Britain had the highest density of purpose-built gladiatorial arenas in Europe.... |
Did Cooking Make Us Human?
Release Date: May 24, 2010 Category: History Documentaries In Did Cooking Make Us Human some determined scientists set out to discover the extent to which diet played a role in the evolution of the human brain. The Australopithecines didn’t eat animals, but the scienti... |
Behind the Swastika : Nazi Atrocities
Release Date: Apr 17, 2010 Category: History Documentaries The year is 1945 and the Allies have just won the war. General Eisenhower is a hero and soon to be President of the United States, Hitler has committed suicide, FDR was dead, and Churchill is back in power and ... |
First To Cross The Ocean
Release Date: Jan 12, 2010 Category: History Documentaries This is a documentary about mankind’s first major ocean crossing the groundbreaking first arrival in Australia. It holds the secrets as to how and why modern humans were able to dominate this planet and beyond.... |
The Real Neanderthal Man
Release Date: Jan 04, 2010 Category: History Documentaries 42,000 Years ago, the only humans in Europe made clothes, educated their young, made tools. But they weren’t the same as us. Now the very latest technology can reveal exactly how they lived, the dangers they fa... |
Montezuma
Release Date: Oct 29, 2009 Category: History Documentaries Dan Snow journeys to the ancient heart of Mexico in search of the lost civilisation of the Aztecs and their last and greatest ruler, Montezuma II (1502-1520). Montezuma inherited an empire of five million peopl... |
The Making Of Captain Cook
Release Date: Oct 13, 2009 Category: History Documentaries Explorer Paul Rose tells the story of one of the greatest ever sea adventures, which transformed Captain James Cook into a national hero and dramatically changed the course of history. Two and a half centuries ... |
Monsters We Met ( part 1 )
Release Date: Aug 24, 2009 Category: History Documentaries When our early ancestors entered new lands they encountered a variety of strange new creatures, monsters that no longer exist. What were they like and where are they now? What are the real answers to the myster... |
Monsters We Met ( part 2 )
Release Date: Aug 14, 2009 Category: History Documentaries When our early ancestors entered new lands they encountered a variety of strange new creatures, monsters that no longer exist. What were they like and where are they now? What are the real answers to the myster... |
The Day We Learned to Think
Release Date: Aug 14, 2009 Category: History Documentaries Understanding of humans’ earliest past often comes from studying fossils. They tell us much of what we know about the people who lived before us. There is one thing fossils cannot tell us; at what point did we ... |