This BBC documentary summarizes and explains one of the most pivotal points in western history; The Reformation. After creating a sect of the Christian church Martin Luther created years and years of violence and bloodshed, in fact most European wars after The Reformation where brought in part if not solely due to the different sects … Read more
Hannibal was a Carthaginian general and statesman who commanded Carthage’s main forces against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War. Many consider him one of the greatest military commanders in human history. His father was a leading Carthaginian commander during the First Pubic War. Military historians call him the father of strategy. Following the … Read more
This documentary is concerned with the timeframe of England`s history, beginning from the Roman military withdrawal and the arrival of the Angles, Saxons and Jutes, followed by the Norman conquest of England in 1066, and ending with the Hundred Years’ War and The Black Death epidemic that emerged in England in 1348 which eventually killed … Read more
Nowadays, we have clocks everywhere. And we can check the time in an instant. But how do humans kept time? How do they calculate time? Do you know the history of timekeeping? This documentary will take you on an epic journey throughout history. The history of timekeeping devices dates back to when ancient civilizations observed … Read more
The Second World War might be long over, but the image of Adolph Hitler still represents the ultimate evil. The legacy he left behind him? 40 million dead, including women, children, soldiers and an annihilation of an entire race. How could one man lead the world to the brick of destruction? The beginning of Hitler … Read more
The Rwandan Genocide was the most bloody event of the 90s. Over the course of 100 days over 800,000 men women and children where slaughtered do to their ethnicity. Soon the U.N. intervened and the bloodbath subsided. This documentary goes into the reasons behind the massacre, the genocide and the aftermath. A truly horrifying film, … Read more
The Black Death, otherwise known as the bubonic plague, remains one of the deadliest pandemics in human history. It was caused by the bacterium Yersinia pestis, and some estimates are that it killed between 75 and 200 million people in Eurasia during the 14th century. The disease was spread through fleas and infected rats. At … Read more
Belchite is a site where the ravages of the war are more striking than in any other place in contemporary Spain. It is a municipality and village in the province of Zaragoza, Spain. Located about 40 km southeast of Zaragoza, Belchite is the capital of the Campo de Belchite administrative region. In 1122, Alfonso the … Read more
This is a pilot mokumentary short satirical series Unauthorized History of inventions by Izzy Avrahami and Erga Netz. You might think that the parking meter was invented in 1935 by Carl C. Magee in Oklahoma City, OK. but when you watch the documentary will be surprised to learn that the meter is actually in the … Read more
The War of the Roses is one of the bloodiest civil wars in history. Fought over control of the English throne in the mid-to-late fifteenth century, the battle was a civil war between supporters of two rival cadet branches of the royal House of Plantagenet. The House of Lancaster and House of York bought thought … Read more