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- Britain's Boy Soldiers: In the British army in World War I, an estimated 250,000 soldiers were actually underage, some as young as 14 and 15. Interviews with the few survivors reveal how these teenagers came to fight - and some to die - for their country and how the government turned a blind eye. A 'Secret History' programme for Channel 4, made by Testimony Films. The programme told the story of the hundreds of thousands of lads who joined the British Army under age during The Great War. The programme won 'Best Network Documentary' at the 2004 RTS Awards.
- New Evidence disputes the British Army at Dunkirk claims that the British Royal Air Force was not at Dunkirk.
- Absolutely gripping story of the Lancaster pilots who launched an attack on the Tirpitz. These men on both sides are so heroic and dignified . We are so privileged to hear the story first hand from these men. Very moving .
- For the first time on camera Zsuzsi Starkloff tells the story of her forbidden relationship with Prince William of Gloucester, in a film rebuilding the lost legacy of the royal family's forgotten star.
- Alfred Kinsey's book 'Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male' (1948) was credited with kickstarting the sexual revolution. What many people don't know about Kinsey is that Chapter 5 of his book, which dealt with child sexuality, was compiled from the diaries of a paedophile.
- The story of the 140,000 Chinese workers who left their homes and came to war-torn Europe in 1917 and risked their lives for the Allied war effort, but whose vital contribution seems to have been airbrushed from history.
- Dr. Kathleen Martinez-Berry searches for Cleopatra's lost tomb.
- A documentary made on the alleged crash of an alien spacecraft in Roswell, New Mexico in 1947, after the now infamous footage of an autopsy of an alien was published.
- In 2012 and again in 2015, Crossrail have unearthed human skulls during their engineering works in London. Since the 1800s, hundreds of skulls have been found in the city - it is one of the most intriguing mysteries of archaeology in London. In this documentary we meet researchers, archaeologists and other specialists to learn all about their current research and possible explanations for how and why so many skulls have been discovered.
- A look on Wu Zetian, one of China's most controversial rulers and the only female empress in China's history.
- 1991– 47m7.2 (38)TV EpisodeThe brick-built Great Wall as we know it today was mostly constructed in the 16th Century. Before that era, differing methods were also used. This documentary explores those methods and why the Wall was constructed in the first place.
- Archaeologists set out to find the wrecks of Captain Franklin's infamous North West Passage voyage.
- Documentary discussing Hitler's fraudulent physician, his poor health and possible drug dependency.
- The Han emperors led sophisticated, opulent lives. They were buried with stunning treasure in magnificent mausoleums. Now archaeologists are using cutting-edge technology to look inside these tombs.
- When Queen Victoria's grandson, the future Kaiser Wilhelm II, was born with a paralyzed arm, it led to a story of child cruelty, secret shame and incestuous desire.
- Documentary telling the inside story of the plans by Louis Mountbatten to manoeuvre his nephew and heir to the Greek throne, Philip, into marrying the future queen Princess Elizabeth and the tensions that that unleashed.
- Investigative journalist and Titanic expert Senan Molony examines recently unearthed photographs of the launch and maiden voyage of RMS Titanic that may shed new light on the disaster.
- The black death had devastating effects in centuries past, but what actually caused it and how many lives did it take? The world has not seen a disease outbreak like it before or since. This film tells the story of skeletons recently unearthed in a long-lost plague cemetery beneath the streets of London. Was it the Bubonic Plague, or as scientists now suspect, an Ebola-like virus?
- The incredible story of one of the most bizarre films ever made - a disastrous, epic 1980s movie telling the story of the founding of Iraq, which was bankrolled by Saddam Hussein and starring Oliver Reed.
- The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race.
- Beijing's Forbidden City is a huge, walled palatial city within the new (more northern and eastern) capital chosen over Nanking by the great Ming emperor Chengzu 'Yongle', who seized the throne in 1402 from his elder brother's son by military coup. It symbolizes the vast empire's then unequaled wealth and power, being the largest palace ever in the world, with halls worthy of the mandate of heaven, impressing any foreign delegation, accommodating thousands of courtiers, public/domestic servants and guards. This required crushing taxes and over a million laborers for most of his reign (until his death in 1424), using the best craftsmen and the finest materials, sparing no expense nor imports (like pigments from Europe), and innovative ways to produce and transport (partially on ice). It would require near-constant maintenance -modern restoration contributes to and benefits from studying its secrets- and frequent rebuilding, mainly after fires, but astonishingly survived well hundreds of seismic shocks, thanks to a brilliant, complex system of leading pressure from shaken pillars (with lose bases) and heavy roof structures to elaborate shock-breaking woodwork with intricately interlocking parts.
- Forensic experts and historians examine the case of Jack the Ripper.
- In 1948, while serving in the Middle East, a British RAF pilot picked up a clay tablet covered in mysterious writing. He brought it home as an intriguing memento, and it sat collecting dust on his mantelpiece for decades. When he died , his son brought it to an expert at the British Museum. The tablet was 3700 years old, and was a detailed instruction manual for building a huge boat to survive a flood - a boat like that recorded in the Epic of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian tale that inspired the story of Noah's Ark during the Jewish exile in Babylon. This was no ordinary boat. Modeled on harbor freight shuttles used for nearly 4,000 years, it was circular in shape, made of reeds and bitumen, and designed to carry heavy freight, including large numbers of animals. Working with leading boat builders, historians, and archaeologists of the period, a team sets out to visit ancient Sumer and the ruins of Uruk, where Gilgamesh was King in what is now southern Iraq, then on to India to build a replica of the original Noah's Ark.
- Documentary focuses on investigating mysteries of burial grounds of William Shakespeare led by noted historian Dr. Helen Castor.
- Declassified FBI documents trace an 11-year investigation of rumors that Hitler survived Germany's defeat in 1945, escaping via U-boat to Argentina.
- A look at the sex lives of the leading Nazis which was at odds with their own policy on morality.
- From recently declassified secret recordings, this Secret History Special explores the remarkable private world of United States President, Lyndon B. Johnson.
- Following the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 almost 2,000 people were missing. Bitter recriminations from the relatives of the missing has divided the island further. This documentary reveals the existence of previously unknown mass graves, the possible last resting place of the missing people.
- The extraordinary story of one of the most scandalous episodes in the history of psychiatry. This documentary tells how a leading Australian psychiatrist, Dr Harry Bailey, instigated an experimental program of "Deep Sleep therapy" and caused a string of deaths in an Australian hospital. Surviving patients and relatives of the deceased provide compelling testimonies. The film unmasks the doctors who assisted Bailey in a cover-up of his crimes.
- March 1944, just weeks before D Day. Helen Duncan, Britain's most famous Spiritualist Medium, stands in the dock of the Old Bailey accused under the Witchcraft Act of 1735. A drama documentary for C4 Secret History.
- Film investigation into the notorious Tuskegee experiment in Alabama.
- The inside story of the corruption of the Met in the early 70's.
- The Fernsehsender "Paul Nipkow" (TV Station Paul Nipkow) in Berlin, Germany, was the first public television station in the world. Via Deutscher Fernseh-Rundfunk, it was on the air from 22 March 1935, until it was shut down in 1944.
- A serial killer who preys on the decadent world of the London Blackout. A Bonnie and Clyde couple on a murderous crime spree. These are the stories erased from the nation's collective memory of WW2 Home Front Britain.
- Five Jews who survived the Second World War by going into hiding in Berlin tell their stories, showing that not all Jews were victims, some knew how to fight back.
- Former Royal Marines commando Arthur Williams embarks on a journey to explore the experiences of nearly two million British soldiers who suffered life-changing injuries and disabilities during the First World War.
- This is a documentary about films made by the British government during World War II which interviewed British serviceman deployed to fight in Burma. The documentary shows clips from those old films and interviews family members of the servicemen interviewed.
- A documentary about John Harris, an activist who was hanged after a bombing in Johannesburg in 1964.
- Police marksman Tony Long, who has been sent on hundreds of operations to take down terrorists, killers and hostage takers, reveals what it is like to take a life in the line of duty.
- Investigates the events surrounding the shooting of 13 men in Londonderry by the British Army on the 30th January 1972, which was dubbed "Bloody Sunday."
- Operation Tiger, the disastrous large-scale rehearsal on Slapton Sands in April 1944 for the D-Day invasion is analyzed. Attacks by German E-Boats and friendly fire incidents led to the deaths of nearly 750 American GI's in the deadly training exercise.
- In 1978, a century-old extradition treaty between the UK and Spain expired, and there was suddenly little or no chance of fleeing British criminals being sent home to face trial. The Spanish coast was seen as a safe haven.
- About the relationship between Michael Dillon, the world's first woman to become a man, and Roberta Cowell, a former spitfire pilot and war hero who was Britain's first man to become a woman.
- The history of the Battle of Jutland is examined.
- 1991–TV Episode
- A history of hacking focusing on Captain Crunch, Steve Wozniak and Kevin Mitnick.