Join historians Luke Tomes and Carl Chinn MBE as they explore the real history behind the infamous gang at the Black Country Living Museum, the filming location for the hit TV series (a Caryn Mandabach and Tiger Aspect Production – created and written by Steven Knight)

With decades of research i...

Join Holocaust expert and historian Dr James Bulgin as he is given unprecedented access to Auschwitz-Birkenau to uncover how this site was transformed, step by step, decision by decision, from a concentration camp for political prisoners into the epicentre of one of the worst crimes in human hist...

From the trenches of WW1 to rise of Hitler and the Nazis, never before seen diaries & photos reveal the life of German Soldier & Teacher Wilhelm Kurtz.

Hidden away since his death in 1982, they are part of an extraordinary archive of documents and personal photographs from the frontline of histo...

On the 80th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz Dan Snow and History Hit were given unique access to the house formerly home to the commandant of the concentration camp, Rudolf Höss.

Barely touched since the end of the second world war (and recently featured in the Oscar winning film The...

Today, Adolf Hitler’s autobiography and Nazi manifesto is still sold all over the world, under the counter, on the internet or simply at the bookshop. This 700 page book, published in 1925, was re-edited numerous times since the death of the author. How was it written? Was Hitler really the autho...

In the fourth and final episode we return to a city transformed. Petrograd, formerly Saint Petersburg is in the hands of the provisional government, whilst the Tsar and his family are confined to the Winter Palace.

Meanwhile, the hugely unpopular war rages on and hunger and poverty continue to c...

In this special History Hit film to mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day, Dan Snow meets celebrated military historian Saul David at the National Archives to dig into the top secret documents that tell the story of the incredible planning that went into D-Day.

Hidden in the archives for decades, t...

In this first episode of 'The Room Where It Happened', History Hit invites three experts to deconstruct the thoughts and feelings of the key players at the heart of this crucial historic moment - each taking the perspective of one of the main protagonists: Khrushchev, Kennedy and Castro.

October...

This documentary sees military historian Alex Churchill travelling through Germany and the Belgian battlefields, retracing the opening weeks of the First World War - a blood battle that took place before the trenches, barbed wire and gas we typically think of when we think "First World War" - ins...

Dan Snow flies on a mission to explore one of the most daring and dangerous aerial attacks of World War 2

On 11th November 1940, 21 antiquated Swordfish aircraft took off from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. They were embarking on one of the most extraordinary raids of the Second World Wa...

During WWII, the sailors of the British merchant navy played a vital role keeping the UK fed and armed. They carried essential supplies across the treacherous Atlantic - and many paid with their lives. What's less well known is that many of those sailors were Chinese - volunteers who came to Brit...

Coronations - pomp and pageantry or a vital link with the timeless traditions of taking the throne?

In our second coronation special, History Hit’s Matt Lewis digs deep into the past to investigate how centuries old aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval coronations will be mirrored in Charles III...