History Revealed

A high altitude enigma which might one day see the history of Earth’s highest mount...

Robin Hood - The Truth Behind England's Greatest Legend

From within the walls of Ancient Athens came a revolutionary new form of governance, but ...

It was perhaps the biggest scandal in British political history, leading to jail sentence...

The discovery of the Pharaoh's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922 proved vi...

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu lay abandoned for over 350 years until a whip-crackin...

Anna Harris unravels a 19th-century miscarriage of justice of mammoth proportions, which ...

Pat Kinsella meets an extraordinary unit of military misfits sent on an against-all-odds ...

Hiroo Onoda’s World War II comes to an end in the forests of Lubang Island – ...

Pat Kinsella tells the incredible story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated journey to...

Mark Glancy explores the extraordinary story behind HollywoodAs critical hit, 12 Years a ...

On 5 April, the romanticised heroine of Hollywood movies entered into the first inter-rac...

More than 400 years have passed since the death of the last Tudor monarch, yet our fascin...

How did sailors live, fight and die on board the most famous Tudor ship of them all: the ...

This year marks 100 years since Europe, and then the world, went to war. Read on to disco...

Heists, robberies and stick-ups – Pat Kinsella tells the thrilling story of the not...

Mark Glancy separates the fact from the fiction of Mel Gibson’s historically inspir...

The extraordinary take of English explorer, writer, cartographer, archaeologist, diplomat...

The Viking Age stretched from the ninth to the 11th centuries. During this era, the Vikin...

They set off to discover the unknown, to find a route across one of the most extreme cont...

An examination of the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons in which Sir Thomas Moore famously ...

Follow the novelist and his Beat Gen buddies tracing the routes that inspired Kerouacs se...

The games of Ancient Rome were barbaric. In this episode we take you on a journey back to...

The legend of Spartacus has been told and retold down the centuries. But who was the real...

The mutiny on the Bounty is a much-fabled crime, but what Bligh achieved next is the trul...

Mark Glancy delves into the true story of Watergate, when a bungled burglary and two youn...

William Cuffay’s arrest and trial sees him transported to the other side of the wor...

“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon, it will be an enti...

Buzz Aldrin was a brilliant engineer and a brave astronaut, but he struggled to cope with...

Atahualpa’s downfall is a tale of greed, violence and God, with devastating consequ...

Leading his army on a perilous trek from Spain to Italy, the great general scored a serie...

We look at the real characters and tragic events that inspired Steven Spielberg to create...

A clash of egos, armies and honour sees medieval England and France engage in bitter comb...

In March 1429, a 17-year-old girl arrived at Charles VII’s court at Chinon. She ann...

In 1937, the pioneering American pilot was set on one last flight – to circumnaviga...

Comparing the true life and death story of celebrity outlaw Jesse James with the Hollywoo...

By the time Cyrus the Great entered Babylon in October 539 BC, he had defeated three empi...

The last of the Tudors, behind the mask of England’s enigmatic Queen

To her people she was a creature of beauty and mother of the nation, but behind closed do...

To her people she was a creature of beauty and mother of the nation, but behind closed do...

The real story of gangster Al Capone and his nemesis crime fighter Elliot Ness

The 3 real escapees who made it home after the Stalag Luft 3 breakout reveal their untold...

The dramatic chain of events that lead to Charles I death

Joshua Slocum set sail in 1895 to become the first man to sail around the world single ha...

An exploration of the real relationship between rival composers Wolfgang Amadeus Motzart ...