History Revealed series

From within the walls of Ancient Athens came a revolutionary new form of governance, but not everyone agreed that it was right one

More than 400 years have passed since the death of the last Tudor monarch, yet our fascination with the dynasty shows no sign of abating.

An examination of the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons in which Sir Thomas Moore famously disagreed with Henry VIII desire for divorce

Heists, robberies and stick-ups – Pat Kinsella tells the thrilling story of the notorious outlaws, for whom the Wild West was only the beginning…

Mark Glancy separates the fact from the fiction of Mel Gibson’s historically inspired epic, Braveheart, and discovers a legend that needed no exaggeration…

Pat Kinsella tells the incredible story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated journey to the Antarctic and his crew’s desperate fight for survival.

The discovery of the Pharaoh's tomb by Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon in 1922 proved vital to uncovering the secrets of Ancient Egypt.

Captain James Cook's globe spanning voyages revealed not only uncharted lands but were packed with adventure and blood shed

Robin Hood - The Truth Behind England's Greatest Legend

Mark Glancy explores the extraordinary story behind HollywoodÆs critical hit, 12 Years a Slaveà

The Inca stronghold of Machu Picchu lay abandoned for over 350 years until a whip-cracking archaeologist stumbled across it.

The legend of Spartacus has been told and retold down the centuries. But who was the real leader of the slave revolt? Who was the man who managed to shake the foundations of Rome?

Spanish conquistadors Hernando de Soto made his fortune invading south and central America but a wild goose chase for gold cost him nore than just his money

Pat Kinsella meets an extraordinary unit of military misfits sent on an against-all-odds World War II mission deep behind enemy lines.

Hiroo Onoda’s World War II comes to an end in the forests of Lubang Island – almost 30 years after Japan’s surrender.

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

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

Buzz Aldrin was a brilliant engineer and a brave astronaut, but he struggled to cope with life back on Earth, as Piers Bizony recounts.

To her people she was a creature of beauty and mother of the nation, but behind closed doors hid a queen riddled with insecurities and plagued by bouts of depression.

They set off to discover the unknown, to find a route across one of the most extreme continents on Earth, to carve out a path to glory. But all Burke and Wills found was tragedy, as Pat Kinsella recounts…

This year marks 100 years since Europe, and then the world, went to war. Read on to discover the key stories from this terrible global conflict and how it will be remembered.

The Viking Age stretched from the ninth to the 11th centuries. During this era, the Vikings cast their raiding-and trading nets wide many centuries before Columbus sailed the oceans.

On 5 April, the romanticised heroine of Hollywood movies entered into the first inter-racial marriage in American history.

“In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon, it will be an entire nation.” John F Kennedy

It took the drive and ambition of one French man to reinstate the Olympics on the sporting calender : the story of 1st modern games held in Athens in 1896

In 1937, the pioneering American pilot was set on one last flight – to circumnavigate the globe. But the lady of the skies would never make it home

Atahualpa’s downfall is a tale of greed, violence and God, with devastating consequences for the entire Inca civilisation.

The extraordinary take of English explorer, writer, cartographer, archaeologist, diplomat, linguist and spy, Gertrude Bell

Comparing the true life and death story of celebrity outlaw Jesse James with the Hollywood hit

By the time Cyrus the Great entered Babylon in October 539 BC, he had defeated three empires – and secured his own for 200 years...