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January 1944: two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied assaults of the war, but they fail to exploit their advantage, giving the German defenders time to reinforce.

Egypt's last queen was a brilliant strategist. In a Mediterranean world under Roman domination, Cleopatra succeeded in ascending to the throne despite facing numerous obstacles.

January 1944: two divisions land at the Italian port of Anzio in one of the easiest Allied assaults of the war, but they fail to exploit their advantage, giving the German defenders time to reinforce.

Pierrefonds looks like a 14th-century fortress, yet it is a 19th-century masterpiece. We uncover how a ruined stronghold became a revolutionary hybrid of Middle Ages and Industrial Age innovation.

A look at the events that lead up to the Second World War using archive footage and eye witnesses.

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.

Nazi naval commander Karl Donitz claimed after the Second World War that he'd only been a sailor following orders, but we set out to prove that he earned his bloody role as Hitler's successor.

Alfred Beach builds the first subterranean railway in the USA, the NYC subway system.

Two brave visionaries endure failure and heartache a century before the internet while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.

Engineer Joseph Strauss and US President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time - the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge - in San Francisco.

A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States to bring much-needed water to the arid American West.

The war in Europe is transformed when, on 22nd June 1941, Hitler unleashes Operation Barbarossa. The Nazi invasion of The Soviet Union has begun.

Warfare has always driven the development of technology; from penicillin and pioneering plastic surgery to the development of the internet and GPS, we rank the most influential inventions of warfare.

The location of King Solomon's Mines has been a mystery for hundreds of years; new evidence has led to an amazing discovery. Might Solomon's wealth have come from the copper mines of southern Israel?

French explorer Franck Goddio has been working on a 3D reconstruction of an ancient monument resting beneath the Mediterranean Sea: the remains of the temple of Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt.

June 1944: a stretch of beach overlooked by fortified cliffs created a devastating baptism of fire. Failed plans, missed opportunities, and courage make this frontline a major turning point in WWII.

Rising 80 metres above Athens, the Acropolis is a high-speed engineering feat forged in an age of war and political ambition. This episode decodes the logistics behind the Parthenon.

Known as the Butcher of Poland, Hans Frank warped the law to encourage persecution, enslavement, starvation, and genocide - we want to know more.

Alfred Beach builds the first subterranean railway in the USA, the NYC subway system.

Two brave visionaries endure failure and heartache a century before the internet while risking everything to connect the United States to the rest of the world with a cable under the ocean.

Engineer Joseph Strauss and US President Herbert Hoover battle side by side to build the two longest suspension bridges of all time - the Golden Gate and the Bay Bridge - in San Francisco.

A hard-driving engineer with a reputation for excellence is on a quest to tame one of the wildest rivers in the United States to bring much-needed water to the arid American West.

Two rival rail companies compete to create the most ambitious engineering project the world has ever seen, an unprecedented railway that crosses the American continent.