Alexander the Third of Macedon, his legend gives him the name "Alexander the Great" but he could also be known as "Alexander the Annihilator" due to the fact that anyone who got in his way was crushed. Alexander considered himself a god, his admirers thought of him as a military genius, his enemies referred to him as the devil.In this film investigators decide to put Alexanders life under a mi
The British Museum in London is filled with many remarkable antiquities from ancient Egypt, among their treasures are 3,000 year old mummies and colossal statues which honour great pharaohs but there is one item that is more valuable than all the rest. At the entrance to their Egyptian collection is a large stone tablet, one that could be overlooked if not for its prominent position. It'
As the United States publicly engaged in the Vietnam War, there was a secret conflict raging right next door in the country of Laos. Under the direction of the CIA, a full-blown military operation took hold of Laos, with just a select few of the U.S. Armed Forces participating.The CIA was actively training an army of allied guerilla fighters at Long Tieng, a secret airbase located in the hea
Georgia's sandy costal shallows hide a deadly secret, a hydrogen bomb dumped by an American bomber over half a century ago in 1958 at Tybee Island. The bomb itself was very much nuclear capable and the military were never able to find it although Pentagon officials insist that the missing h-bomb posses no threat.A spokesperson for the Pentagon has stated that they still believe the best course
This is the story of America, seen in color for the first time and it's the roaring 20's, the country is flourishing and the economy isn't the only thing roaring. Henry Ford ignites the auto industry, radio unifies the nation, Charles Lindbergh ushers in the era of aviation, Americans are celebrating good times but the progress also brings peril.Prohibition makes Al Capone a celebrity gangster
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature.But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there. America wasn’t exactly a New World, but a very old one whose inhabitants had built a vast infrastructure of cities,
Summer 1492, after three months at sea The Santa María, The Pinta and The Niña anchor off the Bahamas, and with this Europe has found the Americas, next comes conquest and colonisation by settlers who remake America in their image.They advance and they destroy, but there is another story about the animals and the plants they bring here and the natural treasures they find here and how the Am
Alexander The Great the shining light of Ancient Greece, the prince from remote Macedonia would become the greatest conquer of all time. No one would have thought that someone would have tried to conquer the whole world, yet alone almost succeed.He was the first European to establish an Empire, an Empire which stretched from the Mediterranean to the end of the known world. Fame on the battlefiel
There are many documentary films which cover the ins and the outs of the Second World War conflict years i.e. between 1939 and 1945, quite a few of these even go as far as detailing the lead up to the war but there isn't much on what happened directly after the war, until now that is.After Hitler reveals how Europe was in ruins after the war, people had hoped for lasting peace but instead