They say knowledge is power and this is seldom more true than in war. Knowing your enemies plans whilst denying them the same privilege is to stack the odds in your favour. As military cryptography advanced in complexity so too did the required effort needed to crack it. In WWII we saw the rise of the Enigma Machine, it's complexity was such that mere manpower could not solve it within any reasona
June 6th 1944, D-Day marks a turning point in WWII. Facing the threat of defeat Adolf Hitler orders massive reinforcements to Normandy to drive the Allies back into the sea. Among them was an elite 15,000 strong division called Das Reich, as these soldiers travelled to the combat zone they come under attack from the French resistance and respond with appalling violence. This is the story of the te
July of 1863 saw one of the most devastating battles of the American Civil War take place in and around the town of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. Comprising of Union and Confederate forces the battle of Gettysburg, a minor skirmish that started by accident quickly exploded into the deadliest battle ever fought on US soil and resulted in the largest number of casualties seen throughout the entire war.
Today we have Europe to ourselves we are all modern humans but when we first arrived in this land it was already a home for our cousins, the Neanderthals. We used to think that we were so much more advanced that we killed them off but that may be wrong. In reality we were so similar in make up that we could interbreed with them and share out DNA. The old story has collapse and we need to now tell
The cool Autumn marks a change in the Earths cycles, giving way to a new season and the Aguardente de Medronhos which is a traditional Portuguese brandy made from the fruit of the Medronho tree. These trees tend to grow wild on the soils of rural Portugal, in areas such as Marmalete, a small village located in the Algarve. In this short film we are taken through the beautiful craft involved in gat
For most of our history, horseback was as fast as any human could hope to travel but then came along the industrial revolution which saw the birth of steam powered and internal combustion engines. Cars transformed our world they made travel easier, more accessible and faster than ever before.This speed however also brought danger with it and for more than 60 years Horizon and the BBC have report
The war in Syria is now three years old and the likelihood of either side reaching victory is further away than ever and the actual situation on the ground in murkier than anytime seen since the war began. For the past 6 months almost no western journalists have entered rebel held Northern Syria because of the risk of kidnap by the renegade Al Qaeda offshoot, The Islamic State.In this film Vie
Originally aired in 2011 this film was released to mark the tenth anniversary of the invasion of Afghanistan, in it we see Reporter John Ware examining some of the key decisions that ended up shaping the conflict, a conflict that has cost many thousands of lives including more than 370 British Servicemen and women. Ware also asks what did the death of Osama Bin Laden who started the Afgh
A short motivational documentary about professional skydiver Dan Brodsky-Chenfeld, who back in 1992 woke up from a six week coma to the realisation that the plane himself and his team were training in had crashed, killing several of his teammates and severely injuring him. Having been told that his dream of becoming a World Champion skydiver was now over due to the severity of his injuries, Dan fo