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Viasat History The Berlin Olympics of 1936 were innovative, introducing television coverage and the torch relay. We show the highlights, but also how Hitler used the Games as propaganda for…

Το Mυστήριο του Κατακλυσμού 6000 years ago, Sumerians built the world's first cities in southern Iraq; the first Westerners to explore these ruins were inspired by Bible stories. What was t…

Αρχαιολογία Nineveh and Babylon were two superpowers of the ancient world, but they were the cities of sin for the writers of the Bible; why do they have such poor reputations in the Old Te…

Viasat History A new generation of archaeologists reopens the mythical Mesopotamian sites of Nineveh, Lagash and Larsa; using new technologies, they make astounding discoveries in the very …

Viasat History This documentary is a rediscovery of Nineveh, capital of one of the greatest civilisations - the world's first genuine superpower, the Assyrians. Why did this great city disa…

Η Μάχη για τον Ποταμό Σχελτ (Σκάλδη) October 1944: the Allies face a major supply crisis - vital fuel and ammunition still has to be landed at the D-Day beaches. When the port of Antwerp is…

Ράπα Νούι A seafaring people called the Rapa Nui flourished on Easter Island hundreds of years ago, but they succumbed to a series of deadly events that saw the entire civilisation destroye…

Η Μάχη για τον Ποταμό Σχελτ (Σκάλδη) October 1944: the Allies face a major supply crisis - vital fuel and ammunition still has to be landed at the D-Day beaches. When the port of Antwerp is…

Νόισβανσταϊν, Γερμανία Neuschwanstein is Louis II of Bavaria's 19th-century fairy-tale castle that inspired Walt Disney. Inside, medieval fantasy hides modern innovation: steel beams, plumb…

Μυστικοί Πράκτορες Espionage and intelligence were crucial during WWII; clever camouflage, the Enigma machine, and concealable weapons were as important as any tank, ship, aircraft or bomb.…

Νίκη του Πολέμου By the end of WWII, the tank had evolved from its trench-crossing beginnings; it had turned into a vision of armoured warfare that carried on through the Cold War and into …

Ο Ναός της Αναστάσεως, Ιερό Καταφύγιο The Church of the Holy Sepulchre is the most sacred Christian site in the world; defied by time, wars and earthquakes, it was rebuilt many times and no…

Η Μεγάλη Σφίγγα The Sphinx is the most monumental ancient sculpture in the world at 73 metres long, 20 metres high and 14 metres wide. Who commissioned it, how was it erected, and what is i…

Τικάλ, Η Πόλη Ζούγκλα Hidden in the rainforest, Tikal was the capital of the most powerful kingdom built by the Maya; now new technologies such as LiDar allow researchers to reveal new secr…

Viasat History The Eiffel Tower might never have seen the light of day; it owes its existence to the tenacity of visionary engineer Gustave Eiffel prevailing over his main rival architect J…

Μπλίτζκριγκ - Κεραυνοβόλος Πόλεμος Britain and France declare war when Hitler invades Poland; in May 1940, the Germans attack Holland and Belgium as a decoy. As the Wehrmacht and Luftwaffe …

Viasat History The Western and Soviet Allied forces meet at Torgau on the Elbe river; the Western troops, having landed at D-Day, descend on Germany from the West while the Soviets march fr…

Αζτέκοι The Aztec empire developed sophisticated writing systems, calendars, and a religion that required human sacrifices, but they would soon be decimated by their encounters with Europea…

Viasat History It was Versailles before Versailles, a palace in the heart of Paris with a history spanning 2000 years; how has it been erased from memory and built over by successive govern…

Η Μάχη για τη Γραμμή Ζίγκφριντ November 1944: as the Allies advance into Germany, they run into concrete bunkers, pillboxes, minefields and tank traps. German soldiers fight tenaciously to …

Σαγράδα Φαμίλια, Ισπανία Begun in 1882, the Sagrada Fam?lia became Gaud?'s radical engineering laboratory. In 2026, the church yet to be finished, builders use modern engineering to raise t…