Allt startade med en lögn. 1 september 1939 rättfärdigade Tyskland sitt intågande i Polen med förklaringen: Vi besvarade elden klockan 5:45. Men givetvis var Tysklands invasion inget försvar, utan ett anfall.

A movie about the life of Harry Schein and his workings in the Swedish culture primetime.

Max Liebermann, a medical student and protegé of Sigmund Freud, helps Detective Rheinhardt in the investigation of a series of disturbing murders around 1900s Vienna.

China - the "Middle Empire" has long been thought to have developed completely independently of the West. Recently this understanding of China's history has been called into question due to some surprising discoveries. New archaeological findings seem to support the theory that there had been contact between the East and West much earlier then originally assumed.

Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels is in charge of building public support for the Holocaust and for the war that Hitler is about to start.

The story of how a young Donald Trump started his real-estate business in 1970s and '80s New York with the helping hand of infamous lawyer Roy M. Cohn.

In 1990s Arizona, an English stockbroker clashes with a mobster's son over the ecstasy trade. The Gravano family shares their perspective as two unlikely rivals vie for control amid guns, gangsters, and raves in the desert.

This film explores the events of September 15th, 1940 - the day Churchill described as the 'crux of the battle.' On a day now celebrated as Battle of Britain Day, Adolph Hitler's Nazi war planes fought the British Royal Air Force....

A masterful orator, Benito Mussolini seized power in Italy in October 1922, four years after the end of the First World War. Using the threat of chaos, he seized power in a legal coup that would inspire many dictators. The son of a far-left activist, Mussolini enjoyed the support of employers and many veterans.

1965. Colette, a woman of so-called loose morals, is wrongly accused of murder by misogynist policemen. Anne-Marie, a young examining magistrate, is given the case. Will she manage to stand up to her chauvinistic superiors? Inspired by real life, the film recounts the combat of two women of opposing temperaments.

Follows the famed queen Marie Antoinette, who was the last queen of France before the French Revolution.

A young man's political awakening and coming of age during the days and weeks leading up to the Stonewall Riots.

This film provides history about members of Adolf Hitler's family of origin and surviving members of his family up to the date of it's release. It highlights suspected reasoning for Hitler's attempts at eradicating any and all traces of his family's existence from public record during his time in power.

Examining the use of propaganda in Hitler's Nazi regime, focusing on the Fuehrer's fascination with it as a potent tool of psychological warfare.

In one of the most consequential moments of the last century, on January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. The series explores how an inconsequential 'nobody' gained such power so quickly, and why people followed his lead.

After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.

The story of a young journalist who fell from grace when it was discovered he fabricated over half of his articles from the publication The New Republic magazine.

855 women joined the war to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million pieces of mail ahead of time.

More than 60 years on, researchers are still arguing about exactly why Omaha Beach was the hardest fought of all the landing points of D-Day. Presenter Richard Hammond and Dr Simon Trew of ...

The story of Eugenie, an esteemed cook, and Dodin - the fine gourmet chef she has been working for over the last 20 years.