Recent Additions to History Hit
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Atlantis: End of a World, Birth of a Legend
Around 1620 BC a gigantic volcano in the Aegean Sea stirred from its 19,000-year slumber.
The eruption tore the island of Thera apart, producing massive tsunamis that flooded the nearby island of Crete, the centre of Europe's first great civilisation – the Minoans.
This apocalyptic event, many ...
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Kidnapped: A Georgian Adventure
The story of 12-year-old James Annesley, snatched from Dublin and sold into slavery in America in 1728, whose fate helped inspire Robert Louis Stevenson's book Kidnapped.
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David Harewood on Blackface: The Hidden History of Minstrelsy
Blackface used music and comedy as a delivery system for racist tropes and became the most popular form of entertainment in the Victorian era. Actor David Harewood explores the origins of Blackface minstrelsy, where white performers grotesquely darkened their skin, in early 19th-century America. ...
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You Can't Take It with You
Historian David Olusoga uncovers fresh insights into the unique lives of six icons, revealing the intimate secrets hidden in the legal artefacts left after their deaths. The wills of Florence Nightingale, Charles Dickens and Beatrix Potter are reevaluated; their successes, failures and relationsh...
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The Boxing Day Tsunami
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First came an earthquake deep below the Indian Ocean. Minutes later, in the early hours of Boxing Day 2004, a 100-foot wall of water ripped through Indonesia. Then the tsunami reached Thailand, leaving unimaginable devastation in its wake. Eye-witness accounts recall the events in this gripping d...
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Suffragettes with Lucy Worsley
Lucy Worsley presents this documentary, which uses dramatised testimony to tell the story of a group of working-class women conducting a dangerous campaign for the vote.
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Britain's Great Cathedrals
1 season
Reverend Pat Allerton, famously known as the ‘portable priest’, embarks on a personal pilgrimage to unlock the secrets of Britain’s most spectacular cathedrals. Visiting London, Canterbury, Lincoln and elsewhere, he uncovers amazing events witnessed across the centuries, as well as the inspiring ...
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I Was There: The Great War Interviews
In the early 1960s, 280 eyewitnesses of the First World War were interviewed for the series, The Great War. Using never-before-seen footage from these interviews, this film illuminates the poignant human experience of the war, through the eyes of those who survived it.
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Genghis Khan
Always strike first and always take revenge. Genghis Khan learnt these lessons the hard way during a violent childhood. Son of a murdered father, Genghis grew up in the unforgiving environment of the Mongolian Steppe. But how did an outcast, raised in poverty, come to be the great Khan? Combining...
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Gandhi
1 season
The first definitive series on the life of Gandhi, examining his relationship with his wife, his controversial views on race and his role on the path to Indian independence. On the world stage, Martin Luther King, the Dalai Lama and a myriad of peace movements have marched in Gandhi's footsteps. ...
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Isaac Newton: The Last Magician
Celebrated as the greatest scientific genius of all time, Isaac Newton is said to have rewritten the laws of nature after watching the legendary apple falling from a tree in his garden. Yet even though he was driven by rational thinking, experiments and observation, the man who laid the foundatio...
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Hiroshima
1 season
It was the defining moment of the 20th Century - the scientific, technological, military, and political gamble of the world's first atomic attack. This drama-documentary shows what it is like to live through a nuclear explosion, millisecond by millisecond. The action takes viewers into the room w...
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Ancient Greek Heroes
1 season
Greek mythology has intrigued audiences for 2000 years. This innovative history series retells these classic stories for modern audiences with the help of reconstructions and CGI. Go beneath the surface of each myth to unveil some surprisingly modern themes: Odysseus is torn between glory at work...
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City Beneath the Waves: Pavlopetri
Just off the southern coast of mainland Greece lies the oldest submerged city in the world. It thrived for 2,000 years during the time that saw the birth of western civilisation.
An international team of experts uses cutting-edge technology to prise age-old secrets from the complex of streets an...
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A Very British Murder with Lucy Worsley
1 season
The history of our curious relationship with murder is explored by Lucy Worsley.
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Agatha Christie: Lucy Worsley on the Mystery Queen
1 season
A life as dramatic as her work. Lucy Worsley discovers the origins of Agatha Christie's macabre magic - and with some compelling characters, uncovers carefully concealed secrets.
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Kursk: 10 Days that Shaped Putin
1 season
Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin is a dramatic and forensic examination of events that took place in August 2000, after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of survivors at the bottom of the Barents Sea. Why did the Russians take so long to accept international assistance? How...
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Dan Snow and the Lost City
Dan climbs mountains on the trail of the incredible lost city of the Inca - Machu Picchu.
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Stonehenge: The Discovery
Dan Snow pieces together the story of the magnificent Stone Age circle.
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Atlantis: The Discovery
Dan discovers if the fate of real cities could have inspired the legend of Atlantis.