In this Timewatch special, historian Bettany Hughes unravels one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time.
She presents a series of geological, archaeological and historical clues to show that the legend of Atlantis was inspired by a real historical event – the greatest natural disaster of the ancient world.
She is tracing the origins of the Atlantis myth and presenting evidence that the Thera eruption inspired Plato’s account of the mystical land.
A hundred years ago, three quarters of the Herero people of the German colony of Namibia were killed, many in concentration camps.
Today, the descendants of the survivors are seeking reparations from the German government. This film tells for the first time this forgotten story and its links to German racial theories.
Described by the BBC as the story of Germany’s forgotten genocide. This powerful documentary by David Adetayo Olusoga took a sensitive and uncompromising look at the tragic circumstances leading to the massacre of three quarters of the Namibia population in German concentration camps built in Africa.
Drawing on historical and archaeological evidence, this fascinating documentary by Dr. Farzin Rezaeian reconstructs 7,000 years of Iranian history.
The film’s advanced animation techniques bring ancient wonders to life, giving an unprecedented look at Iran’s historical and cultural achievements.
Rezaeian has reconstructed the major monuments from seven key periods in Iranian history, bringing to life the settings in which Iranian civilization developed and the context through which the greatest figures of Iranian history, from Cyrus the Great (the Achaemenid Emperor) to Shah Abbas (the Safavid King), can be understood Farzin Rezaeian is an award-winning documentary and educational film producer and director.
In the War of Currents period inside the late 1880s, George Westinghouse and Thomas Edison became adversaries because of Edison’s promotion of direct current (DC) for electric power distribution over alternating present (AC) advocated by Westinghouse and Nikola Tesla.
During the first a long time of electricity distribution, Edison’s immediate current was the regular for your United States and Edison didn’t wish to drop all his patent royalties.
The Roman Invasion of Britain is separated into three episodes. The first deals with the invasion and the events leading up to it, as well as the British reaction and resistance to the occupancy.
The second episode covers the deadly revolt by the Queen Boudicca; a hard-core woman who took the battle to the Roman’s, killing their citizens as well as their troops. Also covered is the aftermath of the rebellion, as well as interesting ways Rome tried to win over the Britons with all kinds of innovations.
Around one,200 BC, an historical Armageddon destroyed nearly every single identified civilization. What could have induced it?
The theories are
a lot of, but most now contain 1 mysterious and massively destructive element – a pressure only the Egyptians survived to name: The Sea People.Who
had been these warriors and the way could they take down the world’s biggest powers inside a span of just 50 many years?Scale the dizzying heights of Crete’s mountain fortress with archaeologist Krzysztof Nowicki as he searches for clues.
Once a powerful, sprawling presence in Northern Africa, the ancient kingdom of Nubia now lies buried beneath mounds of red brick rubble in the Sudan.
Forgotten by history and largely neglected by archaeology, its cities have lain buried for centuries, harboring priceless secrets of a civilization that once rivaled Egypt.
Join world-renowned archaeologists Julie Andersen and Salah Ahmed as they unearth Dangeil – a thriving Nubian city that once sat at the juncture of several prominent trade routes.
The savagery of gladiatorial battles was depicted as Channel four investigated the discovery of eighty skeletons at a York archaeological dig.
As
noted within the Press, the 80 skeletons, the bulk of big, powerfully-built men dating from Roman instances, were found at a dig in Driffield Terrace, Holgate. Tv documentary – Gladiators: Back Through the Dead – examined the idea that the men had been gladiators, based on proof which integrated the truth some had injuries which may happen to be inflicted fighting at an amphitheatre, 1 of the most telling becoming a bite mark from a significant carnivore such as a tiger or bear.
A traditional from what now appears such as the Golden Age of Television documentaries, Alistair Cooke’s America (America: A Private Historical past of your United States) was first broadcast in 1972-3 and it stays, along with the modern The World at War, an instance of how documentaries should be made.
There’s none with the flashy editing, wobbly camera-work, over-intrusive music or costumed actors prancing around within the mode of Simon Schama’s fussy Background of Britain for instance.
Stretching from your Stone Age towards the year 2000, Simon Schama’s Complete History of Britain doesn’t pretend to become a definitive chronicle of your turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles.
What Schama does do,
even so, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, totally free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalizing key historical activities by examining the key characters at the middle of them.
