When a series of UFOs are seen flying over Washington DC in 1952, Harry S. Truman keeps secrets and spreads lies to stop this news interfering with the presidential campaign. Alien Files Reopened ...

Reflect on 80 years since Auschwitz’s liberation. Explore its history, echoes in today’s world and lessons to shape a more ...

Alice Roberts heads to East England to uncover archaeological finds, including a sacred Roman mosaic depicting the Trojan War. Dr Alice Roberts investigates British archaeology and reveals the ...

Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in Earth orbit. Learn more about her life, career and ...

You might have heard of ‘Opposite Day’, a tradition encouraging quirky behaviour. What exactly do people do on Opposite Day, ...

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Violette Szabo served as an operative for the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII. Learn more about her heroic ...

Discover how the Nazis tried to redefine Christmas, altering traditions and carols to fit their ideology and the lasting ...

The Mari Lwyd, Wales’ Christmas horse, is a somewhat similar fantastical animal. But unlike the mythical Yule Cat or Krampus, ...

Today, the word ‘terrible’ can be used to describe anything from a particularly bad meal to a natural disaster that kills millions of people. Back in the 16th Century when it was a nickname bestowed ...

Himmler in particular was infected by a virulent strain of spiritualism which fed into his racist, supremacist world view. For him, establishing a new Aryan empire meant resurrecting ancient Germanic ...

Secrets In The Ice series 3 goes to the most remote, cold, and inhospitable places on the planet to reveal great mysteries that were once frozen in time. Merging CGI re-creations, advanced scanning ...