• 00:00 A Justice of Terror

    Viasat History. We reveal how laws were used by the Nazis to justify the unjustifiable and authorise the most heinous of crimes, and we also learn what role jurists played in this reinterpretation of law.

  • 01:05 War Factories

    German Aviation. At its height the German aviation industry employed three million workers and produced tens of thousands of aircrafts. How did it come to dominate the skies of Europe, and how did it all go so wrong.

  • 02:05 Top Ten Warfare

    Aircraft. Air supremacy has been key to winning a war since the dawn of aerial warfare; from the Sopwith Camel biplane to the F22 Raptor, we identify and rank the most influential aircrafts in history.

  • 03:10 Battles For Europe

    D-Day. June 1944 – American, British and Canadian troops stormed the Normandy beaches along a 50-mile stretch. We look at the amphibious tanks and the heavy kit that weighed them down as they waded ashore.

  • 04:00 Secret Nazi Science

    Cracking the Genetic Code. What secrets did the Nazis hope to find inside the cells and DNA of the human body? Some of the most nauseating Nazi experiments were performed in the name of creating a pure Aryan race.

  • 04:50 A Justice of Terror

    Viasat History. We reveal how laws were used by the Nazis to justify the unjustifiable and authorise the most heinous of crimes, and we also learn what role jurists played in this reinterpretation of law.

  • 05:40 Hitler's Power

    How could a nobody become a dictator, bringing down a democracy in just a few years.

  • 07:20 The Secrets of Hieroglyphics

    We meet a team of Egyptologists in Luxor; they are intrigued by a richly adorned tomb where they try to uncover the secrets of its priests, scribes, painters, engravers and builders.

  • 08:20 The Secrets of Hieroglyphics

    We meet a team of Egyptologists in Luxor; they are intrigued by a richly adorned tomb where they try to uncover the secrets of its priests, scribes, painters, engravers and builders.

  • 09:15 Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II

    Through military campaigns, great battles, retreats, defeats and victories, we examine what decided the affair on and above the battlefields of Europe, Asia and North Africa and in the world's oceans.

  • 10:20 Battles For Europe

    Battle for Caen. June 1944: the British and Canadians are still short of the objective they planned to capture on D-Day: the city of Caen. This episode tells the story of the bloody fighting for the city.

  • 11:25 Top Ten Warfare

    Aircraft. Air supremacy has been key to winning a war since the dawn of aerial warfare; from the Sopwith Camel biplane to the F22 Raptor, we identify and rank the most influential aircrafts in history.

  • 12:35 Secret Nazi Science

    Cracking the Genetic Code. What secrets did the Nazis hope to find inside the cells and DNA of the human body? Some of the most nauseating Nazi experiments were performed in the name of creating a pure Aryan race.

  • 13:30 A Justice of Terror

    Viasat History. We reveal how laws were used by the Nazis to justify the unjustifiable and authorise the most heinous of crimes, and we also learn what role jurists played in this reinterpretation of law.

  • 14:40 Women Under Hitler's Flag

    From 1933 to 1942. This first episode, which begins with Hitler's arrival in power in 1933, goes back to the roots of the indoctrination of young German girls within the female branch of the Hitler Youth (BDM).

  • 15:40 The Secrets of Hieroglyphics

    We meet a team of Egyptologists in Luxor; they are intrigued by a richly adorned tomb where they try to uncover the secrets of its priests, scribes, painters, engravers and builders.

  • 16:40 The Secrets of Hieroglyphics

    We meet a team of Egyptologists in Luxor; they are intrigued by a richly adorned tomb where they try to uncover the secrets of its priests, scribes, painters, engravers and builders.

  • 17:35 Pompeii Rising

    An unprecedented rescue mission and archeological campaign was launched in Pompeii in 2018; leading experts worked together trying to find new clues surrounding a disaster that hit the city.

  • 18:40 Rise and Fall: The Turning Points of World War II

    Through military campaigns, great battles, retreats, defeats and victories, we examine what decided the affair on and above the battlefields of Europe, Asia and North Africa and in the world's oceans.

  • 19:50 Battles For Europe

    Battle for Caen. June 1944: the British and Canadians are still short of the objective they planned to capture on D-Day: the city of Caen. This episode tells the story of the bloody fighting for the city.

  • 20:55 Top Ten Warfare

    20th-century battles have changed the course of history; the Battle of the Somme saw over 60,000 casualties on the first day alone and D-Day marked the beginning of Hitler's ultimate defeat.

  • 22:00 Ancient Megacities

    In Tunisia, an exceptional archaeological site dominates the Mediterranean – Carthage – but these ruins tell another story of a city founded seven centuries earlier by the Phoenicians.

  • 23:05 Hitler: Countdown to War

    War is imminent. Hitler's Nazi forces are mobilizing. Britain could soon be under attack. How will the British public react as the Second World War looms? BBC Select presents this innovative history documentary which looks at the days before war was officially declared. Panic sets in as Britain faces a conflict it is ill prepared for. How could the country ready itself for war with the Nazis.

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