Extra History
Date de parution : 6 septembre 2013
 | Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Rome: The Punic Wars - The First Punic War Most of the research for these videos comes from: Polybius' The Histories http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Rome: The Punic Wars - The Second Punic War Begins Most of the research for these videos comes from: Polybius' The Histories http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Rome: The Punic Wars - The Second Punic War Rages On Most of the research for these videos comes from: Polybius' The Histories http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234... |
 | Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Rome: The Punic Wars - The Conclusion of the Second Punic War Most of the research for these videos comes from: Polybius' The Histories http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0234... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 1 | World War I: The Seminal Tragedy - The Concert of Europe The Concert of Europe held the continent together for years after the Napoleonic Wars, but as the leadership of great nations weakened over time,... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 2 | World War I: The Seminal Tragedy - One Fateful Day in June When Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria decided to visit Serbia on a day of national pride, he angered young nationalists like Gavrilo Princip and... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 3 | World War I: The Seminal Tragedy - The July Crisis In the wake of Franz Ferdinand's assassination, the great powers of Europe scramble to find an answer to the looming threat of war. While Germany... |
 | Saison 2 - épisode 4 | World War I: The Seminal Tragedy - The Final Act Serbia responds to Austria-Hungary's ultimatum after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and the pretext for war grows thinner and thinner.... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai - Battle of Okehazama The Onin War tore Japan apart, but also kicked off the Sengoku Jidai or Warring States Period that's a seminal part of Japanese history. The power... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai - The Siege of Inabayama Castle With his western borders secure, Oda Nobunaga turns his attention east in the direction of the Shogun. When diplomacy fails to subdue the Saito clan... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai - Warrior Monks of Hongan-ji and Hiei Now that he holds Kyoto, Oda Nobunaga finds himself the focus of enemies on all sides. Even the Shogun, who no longer needs his military assistance,... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai - The Death of Oda Nobunaga Oda Nobunaga's control of Japan grows shakier by the day as more rivals emerge to challenge his hold on Kyoto. Egged on by the puppet shogun,... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 5 | Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai - How Toyotomi Unified Japan With Oda Nobunaga dead, Japan hangs in the balance. His old retainer, Tokugawa Ieyasu, must flee for his life from the usurper Akechi Mitsuhide. He... |
 | Saison 3 - épisode 6 | Warring States Japan: Sengoku Jidai - The Campaign of Sekigahara After Toyotomi Hideyoshi passes from old age, control of Japan passes to his young son - or more accurately, to his council of advisors. Tokugawa... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 1 | England: South Sea Bubble - The Sharp Mind of John Blunt When Robert Harley steps in as England's new Chancellor of the Exchequer, he discovers that not only is the government deeply in debt, but no one... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 2 | England: South Sea Bubble - Too Big to Fail Frustrated at every turn by the Whig-controlled Bank of England, Harley and Blunt decide to start their own instution: a trading company that will... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 3 | England: South Sea Bubble - Buying Out Britain The time has come for Blunt to enact the final act of his scheme: taking on the 31 million pound British debt. When Parliament initially balks at... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 4 | England: South Sea Bubble - The Bubble Pops With the South Sea Company's value dangerously inflated, Blunt drives one more scheme to raise stock prices - and it finally backfires on him. Early... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 5 | England: South Sea Bubble - It Was Walpole Robert Walpole's attempts to use the South Sea Company scandal to enhance his own ambitions are threatened by the appearance of Robert Knight, a... |
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 | Saison 4 - épisode 7 | England - The Broad Street Pump - You Know Nothing, John Snow Thanks to his mother's support, John Snow rose from humble beginnings as a coal miner's son and apprenticed to a doctor in Newcastle. As a young... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 8 | England - The Broad Street Pump - Epidemiology Begins! John Snow's single case study was not enough to convince the medical community that cholera was spread through the water, but he did not give up. He... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 9 | England - The Broad Street Pump - Map of the Blue Death John Snow raced to discover the causes of the cholera epidemic that swept Broad Street. He went door-to-door talking to the locals, then surveyed... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 1 | Zulu Empire - Shaka Zulu Becomes King With no written records from the Zulus themselves, historians and anthropologists have pieced together their history from a smattering of sources.... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Zulu Empire - The Wrath Of Shaka Zulu Shaka sought vengeance for Dingiswayo on Zwide and the Ndwandwe. He expanded his control over the Mtethwa and other tribes, then launched his... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Zulu Empire - Diamonds in South Africa Europe had a presence in South Africa dating back to 1652, but the colonies and the native tribes really began to clash in the 1800s. The conquest... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Zulu Empire - Last Stands and Changing Fortunes Lord Chelmsford, the British officer who commanded during the Anglo-Zulu War, vastly underestimated the power and aggression of the Zulu people. He... |
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 | Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Byzantine Empire - Justinian and Theodora - From Swineherd to Emperor Justinian arose from humble roots, the nephew of an illiterate pig farmer named Justin. Justin joined the army and rose to become leader of the... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Byzantine Empire - Justinian and Theodora - The Reforms of Justinian Justinian wanted to restore the glory of Rome, but many obstacles stood in his way. He brought on talented advisors to help him reform the tax... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Byzantine Empire - Justinian and Theodora - Purple is the Noblest Shroud A group of monks declared sanctuary for two hooligans from the demes (Constantinople's fanatical chariot racing factions) who had miraculously... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 4 | Byzantine Empire - Justinian and Theodora - Vanquishing the Vandals Thirty-nine days after the disastrous Nika Riots ended with the slaughter of 30,000 civilians, Justinian directed the city to rebuild the Hagia... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 5 | Byzantine Empire - Justinian and Theodora - Impossible Burden of Fate The conquest of Carthage and the North African provinces was just the beginning for Justinian's ambition. He must have Rome. But like Carthage, he... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Byzantine Empire - Justinian and Theodora - Fighting for Rome Belisarius has only just taken Neapolis when the king of the Ostrogoths is overthrown. The new king, Vitiges, withdraws from Rome entirely to... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 7 | Justinian & Theodora - The Cracks Begin to Spread Belisarius had broken the siege around Rome. Now he wanted to push on to the Ostrogothic capital in Ravenna, so Justinian sent fresh troops with new... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 8 | Justinian & Theodora - Bad Faith Mediolanum had fallen. Belisarius wrote a furious letter to Justinian explaining what happened, and the emperor immediately recalled Narses and... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 9 | Justinian & Theodora - Justinian's Rival A comet flew over the empire for forty days, heralding bad news to come. Raiders struck from the west, coming within mere miles of Constantinople.... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 10 | Theodora - This is My Empire The first recorded outbreak of the Bubonic Plague occurred in Pelusium, an isolated town in the Egyptian province, but soon it moved on to Alexandria.... |
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 | Saison 6 - épisode 12 | Justinian & Theodora - The Emperor Who Never Sleeps Theodora had kept the empire together, but it was deeply scarred. The Plague had killed a quarter of the citizens and imperial revenues were in dire... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 13 | Justinian - Caesar I was, and am Justinian Faced with a crumbling empire, Justinian remained determined to realize the dreams of his youth - even though he was now over 65 years old and... |
| Saison 6 - épisode 14 | Byzantine Empire - Justinian & Theodora - Monogenes Pais - Sean and Dean Kiner | |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Europe - The First Crusade - The People's Crusade In 1095CE, Pope Urban gathered the leaders of the Christian community at the Council of Clermont. Urged on by Emperor Alexius Comnenos of... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 2 | Europe - The First Crusade - Peter the Hermit Emicho of Leiningen and Walters sans Avoir certainly made a mark, but the largest group in the People's Crusade was led by Peter the Hermit. To gain... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 3 | Europe - The First Crusade - A Good Crusade? Although it finds Peter the Hermit's group from the People's Crusade in shambles, the summer of 1096 finally sees the "official" forces of the First... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 4 | Europe - The First Crusade - Men of Iron Having sworn their oaths to Emperor Alexius Comnenus, the Crusaders finally sailed across the Bosphorus River to Turkey. When they disembarked,... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Europe - The First Crusade - Siege of Antioch After their victory at the Battle of Dorylaeum, the Crusaders have an open path to Antioch and beyond that, Jerusalem. After the Sultan of Rum,... |
 | Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Europe - The First Crusade - On to Jerusalem The Crusaders now held Antioch, but not securely. The Turks still control the citadel atop the mountain and had a massive army coming to reinforce... |
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 | Saison 8 - épisode 1 | Korea: Admiral Yi - Keep Beating the Drum Admiral Yi Sun-sin of Korea began his legendary career with a series of disasters. Fate (and corrupt officials) conspired against him to have him... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 2 | Korea: Admiral Yi - Be Like a Mountain Japan invaded Korea after a series of long civil wars that had finally culminated in Toyotomi Hideyoshi leading a unified Japanese army. Their... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 3 | Korea: Admiral Yi - The Bright Moonlight of Hansando While Yi found success at sea, the Korean land army suffered terrible losses. Yi Il, the man who once accused Yi of negligence, lost one battle... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 4 | Korea: Admiral Yi - Those Who Seek Death Shall Live Yi's success had forced the Japanese to give up offensive naval operations, but their huge fleet remained entrenched in Busan harbor. While Yi... |
 | Saison 8 - épisode 5 | Korea: Admiral Yi - Martial Lord of Loyalty After his success at Myeongnyang, Yi began rebuilding the Korean navy and strengthening his partnership with the Chinese. But then, Toyotomi... |
| Saison 8 - épisode 6 | ♫ Admiral Yi - Drums of War - Sean and Dean Kiner | |
| Saison 8 - épisode 7 | Korea: Admiral Yi - Lies | |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 1 | Middle East: Odenathus - Ghosts of the Desert In 260 CE, the Roman Empire was falling apart on all sides. Emperor Valerian gathered the legions to push back on the worst incursions from the... |
 | Saison 9 - épisode 2 | Middle East: Palmyra Today - Afterword Palmyra is an embodiment of our shared past, but right now it's under the control of ISIS. They have destroyed the antiquities that remind us of our... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 1 | The Sanitary Movement - A John Snow Epilogue John Snow's report on the causes of cholera provided yet more evidence of the dangers of filthy cities. Cities had always been unhealthy places to... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 2 | Mary Seacole - A Bold Front to Fortune Mary Seacole treated soldiers during the Crimean War - but she took a long path to get there. She grew up in Jamaica, the daughter of a local hotel... |
 | Saison 10 - épisode 3 | Mary Seacole - Mother Seacole in the Crimea Unable to find any official sponsors, Mary Seacole decided to send herself to the Crimea. She recruited her husband's cousin, a fellow business... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 1 | World War II - The Battle of Kursk - Operation Barbarossa In June 1941, Nazi Germany launched an attack upon the Soviet Union. The German Reich had been building up forces along the Eastern Front for a long... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 2 | World War II - The Battle of Kursk - Preparations Richard "the Challenger" Cutland, ex British tankie and military specialist at Wargaming, stops by to talk about the types of tanks involved in the... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 3 | World War II - The Battle of Kursk - Operation Citadel On July 5, 1943, the long-awaited German assault began. Despite the arrival of the powerful new German tanks, the Soviets ground their advance down... |
 | Saison 11 - épisode 4 | World War II - The Battle of Kursk - Control of the Eastern Front Twelve days of ferocious battle wore both sides down to the bone. Each German push was met with a Soviet counterattack in places like Ponyri and... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 1 | Suleiman the Magnificent - Hero of All That Is A young Suleiman ascends the throne of the Ottoman Empire. He wants to be a benevolent ruler, but he must prove that he is no pushover. Perhaps it... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 2 | Suleiman the Magnificent - Master of the World Knowing that most of Europe is preoccupied with internal struggles, Suleiman launches his wars against Hungary and Rhodes while they're cut off from... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 3 | Suleiman the Magnificent - Sultan of Sultans The victorious Suleiman begins to consolidate his empire and his home. With Ibrahim and his favorite concubine, Roxelana, by his side, he... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 4 | Suleiman the Magnificent - The Shadow of God When a dispute arose over the control of Hungary, Suleiman saw an opportunity to extend his empire into Europe and gain allies from those who'd... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 5 | Suleiman the Magnificent - Slave of God Suleiman's empire stretches across the Mediterranean, but in the midst of his success, he suspects betrayal in his own house. His best friend,... |
 | Saison 12 - épisode 6 | Suleiman the Magnificent - Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques Suleiman's decisions came back to haunt him, starting with the Knights of Malta (once Rhodes). He tried to kick them off their island again, but... |
| Saison 12 - épisode 7 | Suleiman the Magnificent - Lies | |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 1 | WWII - The Resource War - Arsenal of Democracy To understand nations at war, you have to look at how their economies function. With World War II on the horizon, Europe and Asia dug themselves in... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 2 | WWII - The Resource War - Lend-Lease After Germany's early push, the situation looked dire in Europe. The United States had resources to help out, but initially clung to an isolationist... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 3 | WWII - The Resource War - The Engines of War The armies and technology of World War II required a vast supply of resources. A close look at Germany and Japan shows how the need to secure those... |
 | Saison 13 - épisode 4 | WWII - The Resource War - Strategic Bombing A series of missed airstrikes resulting in the death of civilians sparked the no-holds-barred Battle of Britain. Germany launched a Blitz to bomb... |
 | Saison 14 - épisode 1 | Early Christian Schisms - Before Imperium Understanding the early theological struggles of the Christian church is vital to understanding history. This series will focus on Rome and the... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 1 | Early Christian Schisms - The Woes of Constantine Constantine had restored full rights to Christians in the Roman Empire with the Edict of Milan, but he did not expect theological debates to divide... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 2 | Early Christian Schisms - The Council of Nicaea The Council of Nicaea convened to decide the guiding rules of the church - and to resolve the questions posed by Arian theology. A deacon named... |
 | Saison 15 - épisode 3 | Early Christian Schisms - Ephesus, the Robber Council, and Chalcedon The Council of Ephesus meant to heal a rift between Nestorius of Constantinople and Cyril of Alexandria, but instead it set off a chain of... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 1 | The History of Writing - Where the Story Begins How did the ancient civilization of Sumer first develop the concept of the written word? It all began with simple warehouse tallies in the temples,... |
 | Saison 16 - épisode 2 | The History of Writing - The Alphabet Where did the alphabet come from? How did it develop, and why? The writing systems first developed in Sumer provided a basis for the written word,... |
 | Saison 17 - épisode 1 | Samuel HaNagid - A Prince of Jews Forced to flee from his home in Cordoba, Samuel HaNagid made a new name for himself in the kingdom of Granada. He picked his allies carefully and... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 1 | First Opium War - Trade Deficits and the Macartney Embassy The British Empire's grasp on the Americas was slipping right at the time when they needed those resources most. The massive amounts of tea they... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 2 | First Opium War - The Righteous Minister Opium was illegal in China, but that didn't stop the East India Company from manufacturing it for the black market. The Chinese emperor appointed an... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 3 | First Opium War - Gunboat Diplomacy The British set up a blockade outside Canton, but one of their own private merchant ships tried to run through it. When the Chinese came to its... |
 | Saison 18 - épisode 4 | First Opium War - Conflagration and Surrender The Chinese attempt to retake Canton by force failed. New British commanders took charge and would accept nothing less than total Chinese... |
 | Saison 19 - épisode 1 | Urbino - The Light of Italy: Federico da Montefeltro Federico da Montefeltro shone brightly as the "Light of Italy," one of many torches that helped light the flame of Renaissance. He made his name as... |
 | Saison 20 - épisode 1 | Lindisfarne - An Age Borne in Fire Bishops. Manuscripts. Pilgrimage. Wealth. In 793 CE, the island monastery of Lindisfarne thrived in a state of harmony. Then, everything changed... |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 1 | The Brothers Gracchi - How Republics Fall Rome had doubled the size of its empire in a single generation, but such expansion came at great cost. The wars enriched the wealthy and... |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 2 | The Brothers Gracchi - Populares Tiberius Gracchus took up the cause of land reform, determined to restore property rights to the average citizen and curtail the abuses of the rich.... |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 3 | The Brothers Gracchi - Ochlocracy To protect himself from retaliation for his populist policies, Tiberius Gracchus ran for tribune a second time. On election day, he sought... |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 4 | The Brothers Gracchi - Enter Gaius Gaius Gracchus took up the mantle of his dead brother, overcoming resistance from the Senate and the elites to win the election for tribune.... |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 5 | The Brothers Gracchi - The Final Fall The Senate stole credit for all Gaius's proposals, and stole his popular support. Once he failed to win re-election for tribune, the Senate repealed... |
 | Saison 21 - épisode 6 | Gracchus the Elder - Prequel: In His Footsteps Before Tiberius and Gracchus got famous, their father led such a break-out political career that it must have seemed impossible to live up to his... |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 1 | Hiawatha - The Great Law of Peace Hiawatha wanted peace, but a more powerful chief named Tadodaho opposed him. So he joined forces with a man called the Peacemaker and a woman named... |
 | Saison 22 - épisode 2 | Hiawatha - Government for the People After getting the Seneca to join the Great Law of Peace, Hiawatha came up with a plan to convince Tadodaho. But it took Jigonsaseh to confront him... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 1 | The History of Paper Money - Origins of Exchange Giant stones sunk under the sea? Cows? Cowrie Shells? What do they all have in common? They were all money. Find out how we got from exchanging... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 2 | The History of Paper Money - Not Just Noodles How does paper money get introduced? Who has to lose their head to do so? And what does Marco Polo have to do with anything??? |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 3 | The History of Paper Money - Barebones Economy Poor England. First Charles I and civil war, then losing to the French, then the Great Fire of London in 1666. Luckily, Nicholas Barbon comes along... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 4 | The History of Paper Money - Lay Down the Law What happens when you really try to put paper money doctrine into practice? And why would you put a gambler, womanizer, and fugitive criminal like... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 5 | The History of Paper Money - Working out the Kinks The first question of paper money is not how much you can print, nor even what its value is - but who prints the money? When every bank started to... |
 | Saison 23 - épisode 6 | The History of Paper Money - The Gold Standard Even as the use of paper money grew, ties to the gold standard remained... and remained challenging. From the First Opium War to the Great... |
| Saison 24 - épisode 1 | Veterans Day - A Call to Armistice: Fundraising for War Child Charity Veterans Day, or Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day, commemorates the end of World War I: a day the world hoped to bring our soldiers home for good.... | |
| Saison 25 - épisode 1 | Simón Bolívar - Reverberations Born to one of the wealthiest families in Venezuela, Simón Bolívar imbibed the ideals of revolution from a tutor who inspired him to travel to... | |
| Saison 25 - épisode 2 | Simón Bolívar - Francisco de Miranda When Napoleon conquered Spain, the Spanish colonies no longer had a clear leader to follow. Bolívar seized on this opportunity to promote his dreams... | |
| Saison 25 - épisode 3 | Simón Bolívar - Leavings and Returns The failure of his first attempted revolution in Venezuela only fanned the flames of Simón Bolívar's determination to end Spanish reign over South... | |
| Saison 25 - épisode 4 | Simón Bolívar - Defeat is Not Surrender Failure had taught Simón Bolívar one important lesson: no single state in Spanish South America could win independence alone. To succeed, he needed... | |
| Saison 25 - épisode 5 | Simón Bolívar - Heavy is the Head After so many failures, Simón Bolívar finally began to find success: Gran Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia all stood free from Spanish rule. He raced to... | |
| Saison 25 - épisode 6 | Simón Bolívar - All Good Things Simón Bolívar hoped to bring the nations of South America together in one great federation, but he feared that people would think he meant to make... | |
| Saison 26 - épisode 1 | Catherine the Great - Not Quite Catherine Yet Before she became Catherine the Great, legendary empress of Russia, she was a smart but lonely girl named Sophia. Her mother ignored her until... | |
| Saison 26 - épisode 2 | Catherine the Great - Not Quite Empress Yet Sophia's excitement to meet her future husband deflated when she realized Peter III was a boor who cared nothing about Russia. By contrast, she... | |
| Saison 26 - épisode 3 | Catherine the Great - Empress Catherine at Last When the conspiracy to seat Catherine on the throne of Russia was exposed, she had to move quickly. While Peter III blundered through a day of... | |
| Saison 26 - épisode 4 | Catherine the Great - Reforms, Rebellion, and Greatness Catherine had great ambitions to reform Russia according to her own highest ideals, but she soon found that the reality of governance made those... | |
| Saison 26 - épisode 5 | Catherine the Great - Potemkin, Catherine's General, Advisor, and Lover Catherine had many lovers during her life, but perhaps none meant so much to her as Grigory Potemkin. Although their romance did not last a... | |
| Saison 26 - épisode 6 | Catherine the Great - Succession The optimism that marked Catherine the Great's early years turned on its head. She oversaw the partition and final dissolution of the... | |
| Saison 27 - épisode 1 | Ned Kelly - Becoming a Bushranger When Ned Kelly lost his father at a young age, he became the man of the house but didn't know how to support his family. Swept up by the grandiose... | |
| Saison 27 - épisode 2 | Ned Kelly - Under Suspicion Ned's second venture as a bushranger brought him to the attention of the local police. He did time in prison, then tried to clean up his act, but... | |
| Saison 27 - épisode 3 | Ned Kelly - Shoot Out at Stringybark Creek Ned Kelly and his infamous band of horse thieves tormented the police. It seemed they could not be caught... until Ned fired shots at an officer who... | |
| Saison 27 - épisode 4 | Ned Kelly - Kelly Country Hunted by the police, the Kelly Gang decided to strike back instead of hiding. Since he blamed the rich for all his troubles, Ned took aim at the... | |
| Saison 27 - épisode 5 | Ned Kelly - The Iron Outlaw Ned Kelly sought revenge against the police. He built plate armor and planned to derail their train so he could kill them, but his plan was betrayed... | |
| Saison 28 - épisode 1 | Mary Anning - Princess of Paleontology "She sells seashells by the seashore." Many have heard this old English rhyme, but few know the true story of the woman who inspired it. Her name... | |
| Saison 29 - épisode 1 | The Articles of Confederation - Becoming the United States When the thirteen colonies of North America broke away from Great Britain, they struggled to draft their first constitution. After great debate,... | |
| Saison 29 - épisode 2 | The Articles of Confederation - Ratification The Continental Congress sent the Articles of Confederation to the thirteen states for ratification, but Maryland insisted on changes that Virginia... | |
| Saison 29 - épisode 3 | The Articles of Confederation - Finding Finances With the newly United States on the verge of bankruptcy, Congress reaches out to the most able financier in the nation: Robert Morris. His ambitious... | |
| Saison 29 - épisode 4 | The Articles of Confederation - Constitutional Convention The war finally ended and the United States secured their independence from Great Britain, but immediately their Confederation seemed to be on the... | |
| Saison 30 - épisode 1 | Hunting the Bismarck - The Pride of Germany During World War II, the Bismarck was the pride of the German navy - and the nightmare of Great Britain. It was enormous, overpowered, and a... | |
| Saison 30 - épisode 2 | Hunting the Bismarck - The Mighty HMS Hood The Bismarck had been sighted, and the British fleet raced to intercept it with their own flagship: the mighty HMS Hood. As Hood and her escort... | |
| Saison 30 - épisode 3 | Hunting the Bismarck - A Chance to Strike The order went out: Sink the Bismarck. Ships converged from all over the Atlantic to hunt down the pride of the German navy, and Swordfish planes... | |
| Saison 30 - épisode 4 | Hunting the Bismarck - Sink the Bismarck Sink the Bismarck. Churchill's orders were simple, but executing them had proved tricky. Admiral Tovey and his hastily summoned handful of ships and... | |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 1 | Kamehameha the Great - The Lonely One Kamehameha I of Hawaii sought greatness not only for himself but for his people. He rose up in the face of many setbacks and hunted advantages... |
 | Saison 31 - épisode 2 | Kamehameha the Great - Law of the Splintered Paddle Kamehameha brought the islands together and introduced the first human rights code, the Law of the Splintered Paddle. He continued to trade with... |
 | Saison 32 - épisode 1 | D-Day - The Great Crusade D-Day: June 6, 1944, the day when Allied forces stormed the beaches of Normandy to retake France from the Germans. They hoped to take the Germans by... |
 | Saison 32 - épisode 2 | D-Day - The Secret War The Germans expected the Allies to invade France to re-open the Western Front, but they did not know when or where the invasion would start - thanks... |
 | Saison 32 - épisode 3 | D-Day - La Résistance Although the French government surrendered to the German invasion, French people rose up and formed resistance groups to take their country back.... |
 | Saison 32 - épisode 4 | D-Day - The Atlantic Wall The Germans had established a secure barrier against the Allied invasion of France - or so they believed, until the D-Day landings in Normandy... |
 | Saison 33 - épisode 1 | The Bronze Age Collapse - Before the Storm Egyptians. Hittites. Assyrians. Myceneans. Long ago, these four Bronze Age civilizations lived together in a healthy system of trade, agriculture,... |
 | Saison 33 - épisode 2 | The Bronze Age Collapse - The Wheel and the Rod Bronze Age societies built intricate networks of trade, advanced military infrastructure, and hugely organized central governments. But when crucial... |
 | Saison 33 - épisode 3 | The Bronze Age Collapse - Fire and Sword At last, we have the Sea People: marauders who swept into Bronze Age cities and ground them into dust. But while they're often blamed for the Bronze... |
 | Saison 33 - épisode 4 | The Bronze Age Collapse - Systems Collapse It started with famine... and ended with four great civilizations' utter destruction. The Bronze Age Collapse is still a matter of scholarly debate,... |
 | Saison 34 - épisode 1 | Saragarhi - The Last Stand A humble signal station manned by only twenty one Sikh officers of the British Empire finds itself beset by 10,000 attackers. There is no hope for... |
 | Saison 35 - épisode 1 | Great Northern War - When Sweden Ruled the World A young boy king had inherited the crown of the Swedish Empire, and his neighbors saw an opportunity to attack. To their surprise, young Charles XII... |
 | Saison 35 - épisode 2 | Great Northern War - A Good Plan Augustus the Strong was determined to prove his might by defeated Charles XII on the battlefield. He gathered his Polish-Lithuanian forces, met the... |
 | Saison 35 - épisode 3 | Great Northern War - Young and Violent Flush from his victories against Poland-Lithuania, Charles XII of Sweden sets his eyes on an even greater enemy: Russia. But its ruler, Peter the... |
 | Saison 35 - épisode 4 | Great Northern War - Clash of Kings Charles XII had gone to the Ukraine hoping for supplies and reinforcements, especially from the cossacks led by Ivan Mazeppa. But Peter the Great... |
 | Saison 35 - épisode 5 | Great Northern War - Rise and Fall Charles XII narrowly escaped the Russian pursuit, with help from the Ottoman Empire. But the weak points in his army had been clearly exposed.... |
 | Saison 36 - épisode 1 | The Collapse of the Carolingian Empire - Echoes of History The empire built by Charlemagne would end up divided by his grandsons, all of whom wanted to rule their own piece of it. But the division worked... |
 | Saison 37 - épisode 1 | Otto von Bismarck - The Wildman Bismarck Otto von Bismarck became the greatest statesman of a generation, but he began as an intransigent and irresponsible youth. He coasted through... |
 | Saison 37 - épisode 2 | Otto von Bismarck - A Man of Great Ideas 1848. Revolution swept Europe as the working class rose up to claim their freedoms from an oppressive ruling class. But as a member of that ruling... |
 | Saison 37 - épisode 3 | Otto von Bismarck - Iron and Blood Bismarck was just starting to get the hang of diplomacy when the throne of Prussia passed to a new Frederick Wilhelm who promptly sent him away to... |
 | Saison 37 - épisode 4 | Otto von Bismarck - The Iron Chancellor Bismarck turned up the heat on his long-term plan to unite the German Confederation under Prussian leadership. He allied with Austria to seize a... |
 | Saison 37 - épisode 5 | Otto von Bismarck - Prussia Ascendant The northern German states now looked to Prussia for leadership, but that power brought increased attention from their enemies. Bismarck engineered... |
 | Saison 37 - épisode 6 | Otto von Bismarck - Germany! You would think that capturing the Emperor of France would end the war, but... no. Who could Bismarck negotiate with? Eventually he forced an... |
 | Saison 38 - épisode 1 | Berlin Airlift - The Cold War Begins Tension between the Soviet Union and their former World War 2 Allies escalated into a hostile blockade of Berlin. All sides wanted to avoid another... |
 | Saison 39 - épisode 1 | Khosrau Anushirawan - Like Father, Like Son Khosrau Anushirawan ushered in a golden age of Iran, but only after his father Kavadh suffered through the near collapse of the empire. Once he... |
 | Saison 39 - épisode 2 | Khosrau Anushirawan - Prince of Persia Kavadh asked his allies in Eastern Rome for help getting Iran back on its feet. The Romans' replies were not only unhelpful - they were insulting.... |
 | Saison 39 - épisode 3 | Khosrau Anushirawan - The Immortal Soul Once the chaos settled, Khosrau enjoyed an unprecedented era of peace. He brought reform to the army and the economy, invested in a great center of... |
 | Saison 39 - épisode 4 | Khosrau Anushirawan - Trolling Justinian Iran and Rome had agreed to an Eternal Peace, but tensions between them proved too great and Khosrau decided to invade while Justinian's guard was... |
 | Saison 39 - épisode 5 | Khosrau Anushirawan - On Top of the World Plague had brought an end to Khosrau's war against Justinian, but Justinian's nephew soon reignited the rivalry. Khosrau was at the peak of his... |
 | Saison 40 - épisode 1 | WW1 Christmas Truce - Silent Night On Christmas Eve in 1914, soldiers in the trenches sang together across the wastes of No Man's Land. Some were brave enough to step out of their... |
 | Saison 40 - épisode 2 | WW1 Christmas Truce - Letters from the Trenches "Yesterday there was a fierce and terrible onslaught... of Christmas packages into our trenches." So began one soldier's letter home after the... |
 | Saison 41 - épisode 1 | Cheng I Sao - Pirate Queen She was the most ferocious pirate China had ever known. She was a powerful fleet commander, a sharp businesswoman, and a consummate strategist. She... |
 | Saison 42 - épisode 1 | Cuban Missile Crisis - The Failed Checkmate An eye for an eye, a missile for a missile--that's how the saying goes, right? So thought the Soviet Union and the United States in the early fall... |
 | Saison 42 - épisode 2 | Cuban Missile Crisis - Eyeball to Eyeball After President Kennedy's television address, tensions are rising. Fidel Castro is getting annoyed at the US and Soviet Union alike, and everyone... |
 | Saison 42 - épisode 3 | Cuban Missile Crisis - Black Saturday With simultaneous nuclear tests by both the US and Russia, and tense miscommunications among troops on the ground, in the air, and on the water, the... |
 | Saison 43 - épisode 1 | Genghis Khan - Temüjin the Child As a child, Temüjin was afraid of the world, saddened by its cruelty and an outcast from his own tribe. But his mother, Hoelun, passed on her... |
 | Saison 43 - épisode 2 | Genghis Khan - The Rivalry of Blood Brothers When Temüjin needed help to find his kidnapped wife, Börte, his blood brother and friend Jamukha came to his aid, and the two eventually combined... |
 | Saison 43 - épisode 3 | Genghis Khan - The Debut of Temüjin Khan Jamukha and Temüjin were officially fighting for control of the Mongolian steppes, appointing themselves the titles of "khan." But each man... |
 | Saison 43 - épisode 4 | Genghis Khan - Khan of All Mongols Temüjin had a plan: a set of strategies to keep amassing wealth and followers for himself while keeping unity between all the disparate Mongol... |
| Saison 43 - épisode 5 | Genghis Khan - Beginnings of the Great Mongol Nation The man now known as Genghis Khan, leader of all Mongols, was ready to show the world what he was made of. He acted in fairness towards his own... | |
| Saison 43 - épisode 6 | Genghis Khan - The Final Conquering Years Genghis Khan wanted to establish a long-lasting legacy of conquering and growth for the Mongols, but at what cost? Even his own sons fought each... | |
| Saison 44 - épisode 1 | The Danelaw - Alfred vs. Guthrum The Vikings moved from Scandinavia to the coasts of Britain, intent on establishing a new kingdom by any blood necessary. What they probably didn't... | |
 | Saison 44 - épisode 2 | The Danelaw - The Fall of Eric Bloodaxe After peace was made between King Alfred and Guthrum, the Danelaw was born--a geographic area in England controlled by the Danes, but also extremely... |
| Saison 45 - épisode 1 | The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire - Horror in Manhattan A throwaway cigarette landed on a pile of cloth. 146 workers died from the resulting fire. But this tragedy motivated citizens and politicians to... | |
 | Saison 46 - épisode 1 | The Empire of Mali - The Twang of a Bow While the old Ghana Empire waxed wealthy due to taxes on trade passing through its lands, the new Empire of Mali born in its stead had expanded... |
 | Saison 46 - épisode 2 | The Empire of Mali - An Empire of Trade and Faith Seeking a meeting with the emperor of the Mali Empire, a man named Ibn Battutah journeyed across the perilous Sahara sands to discover Mali's gold...... |
 | Saison 46 - épisode 3 | The Empire of Mali - Mansa Musa Mansa Musa is remembered as the richest person in the entire history of the world, but he also worked hard to establish the empire of Mali as a... |
 | Saison 46 - épisode 4 | The Empire of Mali - The Cracks Begin to Show After Mansa Musa's death, the rivers of gold started drying up, and bitterness snaked out from the fringes of the vast Mali Empire. Wars were coming..... |
 | Saison 46 - épisode 5 | The Empire of Mali - The Final Bloody Act The Mali Empire comes to an end after the rise of rival powers and weakened by colonial influences, but not without leaving a legacy as a place of... |
 | Saison 47 - épisode 1 | The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - Sacred Geometry Before we get into non-Euclidian geometry, we have to know: what even is geometry? What's up with the Pythagorean math cult? Who was Euclid, for... |
 | Saison 47 - épisode 2 | The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - The Great Quest For hundreds of years, Euclid's geometry disappeared with the fall of the Roman Empire. But in Constantinople, Islamic mathematicians, including... |
 | Saison 47 - épisode 3 | The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - Squaring the Circle Euclidean geometry eventually found its way back into Europe, inspiring René Descartes to create the Cartesian coordinate system for maps, and Isaac... |
 | Saison 47 - épisode 4 | The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - A Most Terrible Possibility In the early 19th century, people started to wonder if the Fifth Postulate couldn't be proven at all--meaning that it could be right, but it could... |
 | Saison 47 - épisode 5 | The History of Non-Euclidian Geometry - The World We Know Up until the 20th century, people assumed light behaved like a wave, passing through the "aether wind"--a fluid with incomprehensible properties.... |
 | Saison 48 - épisode 1 | Thermopylae - The Hellenic Alliance A small handful of Grecian city-states have come together to stand off against the invading Persians at Thermopylae. At this fateful mountain pass,... |
 | Saison 48 - épisode 2 | Thermopylae - East vs. West Why does everyone know the Greek defeat at Thermopylae, but victories like Salamis and Plataea remain obscure? Because it helped define Greek, and... |
 | Saison 49 - épisode 1 | 1918 Flu Pandemic - Emergence Between 3 and 6 percent of the world's population died in 18 months when the flu first tried to take over the world. In today's episode we explore... |
 | Saison 49 - épisode 2 | 1918 Flu Pandemic - Trench Fever The flu arrived in France. It found a pleasant home in the crowded wartime trenches, much to the dismay of the Allies who tried to keep the flu a... |
 | Saison 49 - épisode 3 | 1918 Flu Pandemic - Order More Coffins Dr. Welch, Dr. Avery, Dr. Park, and Dr. Williams are on the hunt now to correctly identify this new pathogen and make a vaccine. But public... |
 | Saison 49 - épisode 4 | 1918 Flu Pandemic - Fighting the Ghost Philadelphia gets hit the hardest. New York fares somewhat better, but everyone is trying to keep hush-hush about a pandemic that still found its... |
 | Saison 49 - épisode 5 | 1918 Flu Pandemic - Leviathan This is a global pandemic. The flu jumps ship, literally, onto the docks of American Samoa, of South Africa, of Alaska, of India. The 1918 flu... |
 | Saison 49 - épisode 6 | 1918 Flu Pandemic - The Forgotten Plague Why did everyone forget about the flu pandemic so fast? Partly because its effects were intermingled with the death and depression of World War I,... |
 | Saison 50 - épisode 1 | Pellagra - A Medical Mystery Pellagra can cause depression, dementia, and diarrhea, eventually leading to death. Dr. Joseph Goldberger was put on the case to crack it. |
 | Saison 51 - épisode 1 | Kingdom of Majapahit - An Empire of Water In this series we will explore the history of a short-lived kingdom that united the diverse, 13,000+ islands of Indonesia: Majapahit. Before... |
 | Saison 51 - épisode 2 | Kingdom of Majapahit - Wrath of the Khan The Mongols came to the island of Java--the King of Singhasari had defied them for too long. But by the time they got there, the king had died, and... |
 | Saison 51 - épisode 3 | Kingdom of Majapahit - Master of Intrigue After Raden Vijaya passed away, the crown passed on to his son Jayanagara--along with his reputation to create scandal and vice. Gajah Mada, whose... |
 | Saison 51 - épisode 4 | Kingdom of Majapahit - The Golden Reign The new sixteen-year-old king, Hayam Wuruk, had inherited an empire. Gajah Mada acted on his behalf, reshaping the way that the throne of Majapahit... |
 | Saison 51 - épisode 5 | Kingdom of Majapahit - Changing Winds When Islam arrived in Indonesia, life changed--except within Majapahit, where court drama kept them focused on themselves and unaware of the visits... |
 | Saison 52 - épisode 1 | Battle of Saipan - Steel and Coral The battle of Saipan would decide the fate of the Pacific War. On a tiny island, just five miles wide, thousands died under advanced artillery and... |
 | Saison 52 - épisode 2 | Battle of Saipan - Suicide Island As the ruthless clash of the Saipan invasion drags on into the second week, a unique and unlikely hero emerges. Marine scout Guy Gabaldon can speak... |
 | Saison 53 - épisode 1 | Quantum Computing - The Foundation of Everything Is light a particle? Is light a wave? Let's take a look at Thomas Young's famous double-slit experiment--creating those really super funky... |
 | Saison 53 - épisode 2 | Quantum Computing - Electron Boogaloo Today we're exploring one of Albert Einstein's most controversial papers: his ideas on the photoelectric effect, which describes light as quanta... |
 | Saison 53 - épisode 3 | Quantum Computing - The Einstein-Bohr Debates To understand the power and the challenges of the quantum computer, we have to spend a little more time watching the intense debates between Neils... |
 | Saison 53 - épisode 4 | Quantum Computing - Spooky Action at a Distance What happens when we can't link physical cause and effect between two actions? Well, quantum bits (or qubits) do this all the time. Let's look into... |
 | Saison 53 - épisode 5 | Quantum Computing - Decoherence Quantum computing isn't a replacement for classical computing... yet. Quantum decoherence happens when anything gets in the way of a qubit's job, so... |
 | Saison 53 - épisode 6 | Quantum Computing - The World of the Future What does the quantum revolution mean today? We talk about quantum computing application possibilities in machine learning, cybersecurity,... |
 | Saison 54 - épisode 1 | Julie d'Aubigny - Duelist, Singer, Radical Julie d'Aubigny lived during an unusual time in 17th-century France when political and cultural norms were shifting. She was allowed to exist openly... |
 | Saison 55 - épisode 1 | Viking Expansion - The Serpent-Riders The medieval Scandinavians left an impact not just on Greenland and Iceland, but on France, England, Russia, and even briefly North America. But how... |
 | Saison 55 - épisode 2 | Viking Expansion - Rollo the Walker Rollo the Walker led the Great Heathen Army and had his sights set on sacking Paris, in a time when relations between the Vikings and the Franks had... |
| Saison 55 - épisode 3 | Viking Expansion - Ireland When Thorgest arrived on the coasts of Ireland with over a hundred long ships, he was ready to raid--and to establish cities like Dublin and many... | |
 | Saison 55 - épisode 4 | Viking Expansion - The Lands of the Rus The Rus Vikings headed further inland into eastern Europe, raiding Constantinople (unsuccessfully) at first, and then eventually falling into... |
 | Saison 55 - épisode 5 | Viking Expansion - A Song of Ice and Greenland The Scandinavians stumbled on Iceland, at first on accident--then, gradually exploring it--and finally intentionally migrating there because despite... |
 | Saison 55 - épisode 6 | Viking Expansion - Wine Land From Greenland, explorers like Bjarni, Freydis, and Leif Erikson--aka "Leif the Lucky"--ventured into Vinland, the very first bit of North America... |
 | Saison 56 - épisode 1 | Defense of Poland - The Battle of the Border Poland is threatened in 1939 not just by the Nazis, but by its own precarious geography between Germany and Soviet Russia. Edward Rydz-Śmigły... |
 | Saison 56 - épisode 2 | Defense of Poland - Under Siege Poland, alone, faces off both Soviet Russia armies and the Germans for five long weeks. Foreign reporter Julien Bryan captures footage of the siege... |
 | Saison 57 - épisode 1 | Sun Yat-sen - A Killing in Hong Kong Growing up in Honolulu, Sun Yat-sen had an expansive, exciting education, which would inspire him when he moved to Hong Kong as a young adult ready... |
 | Saison 57 - épisode 2 | Sun Yat-sen - A Kidnapping in London Sun Yat-sen moves to a new city for safety, but it will not last long--a year after the Revive China society is destroyed and scattered, he is... |
 | Saison 57 - épisode 3 | Sun Yat-sen - An Army in Exile Sun Yat-sen spends the next ten years following his London adventures trying to organize the rebellion in Tokyo--and ends up not recruiting just... |
 | Saison 57 - épisode 4 | Sun Yat-sen - A Bombing in Wuchang Another group of revolutionaries in China, the Wuchang Uprising, accidentally kicked off their own plans earlier than expected, which lead to Sun... |
 | Saison 57 - épisode 5 | Sun Yat-sen - A Dream of China Sun's attempts to found democracy in China were thwarted by the chaos of the authoritarian warlords who still stayed around. But, inspired by the... |
 | Saison 58 - épisode 1 | Curing Tuberculosis - The Hero Koch Fascinatingly enough, tuberculosis was actually considered "trendy" in the Victorian era of Europe--but Dr. Robert Koch, hero of the German Empire,... |
 | Saison 58 - épisode 2 | Tuberculosis - A Ten-Thousand Year Battle Tuberculosis couldn't be cured and eliminated by just one person like Dr. Robert Koch, but thanks to the collective efforts of the medical community... |
 | Saison 59 - épisode 1 | Jane Austen - Sarcasm and Subversion Jane Austen wrote in the name of making critical social commentary of the privileges she and others held while the rest of Europe was in political... |
 | Saison 60 - épisode 1 | Irish Potato Famine - Isle of Blight The potato blight hit the United States first before it came to Ireland (and other countries). But what made it particularly devastating in Ireland... |
 | Saison 60 - épisode 2 | Irish Potato Famine - The Corn Laws Prime Minister Robert Peel was caught between the political pressures of the Whigs and the Tories. He repealed the corn laws in Britain to keep food... |
 | Saison 60 - épisode 3 | Irish Potato Famine - Black '47 Watching the Irish suffer from the view of London, Sir Charles Trevelyan believed that the potato famine was part of God's will. Inspired by the... |
 | Saison 60 - épisode 4 | Irish Potato Famine - The American Wake Not all of the 214,000 Irish immigrants in 1847 made it safely to their new homes--and of those who did, many faced classism and xenophobia and even... |
 | Saison 60 - épisode 5 | Irish Potato Famine - The Young and the Old Irish leaders entered the picture when the 1847 Poor Laws backfired, leading landowners to mass-evict their starving tenants. Daniel O'Connell tried... |
 | Saison 61 - épisode 1 | The Boston Massacre - Snow and Gunpowder The Boston Massacre didn’t come out of nowhere--resentment between the early US colonies and the British army had been brewing for some time over... |
 | Saison 62 - épisode 1 | Siege of Vienna - Opening Bombardment Mehmed IV wanted to live up to, and even surpass, the legacy of his forefather Mehmed II, who had secured the Ottomans' inheritance to the Roman... |
 | Saison 62 - épisode 2 | Siege of Vienna - Tunnel War The siege presses on from its initial active resistance phase to the long, routine drudgery of survival on the inside and elaborate defense building... |
 | Saison 62 - épisode 3 | Siege of Vienna - Charge of the Winged Hussars Leopold knew it was time to get the Holy Roman Empire involved if he wanted to keep Vienna, but it wouldn't be as simple as asking for a favor.... |
 | Saison 63 - épisode 1 | Queen Nzinga - Rise of a Legend Nzinga didn't start out as a queen--but when she saw how incompetently her brother was running affairs in Ndongo (what would become Angola), she... |
 | Saison 63 - épisode 2 | Queen Nzinga - The Double Queen Nzinga was briefly, temporarily supplanted by Ngola Hari who had been installed by the Portuguese, but she was determined to let nothing get in the... |
 | Saison 64 - épisode 1 | U.S. Civil War - Surprising Soldiers Historians have been learning that the US civil war armies were a lot more diverse than previously accounted for--partly because many soldiers who... |
 | Saison 65 - épisode 1 | The Three Kingdoms - Yellow Turban Rebellion Liu Bei, Zhang Fei, Guan Yu--these were the men who would define the Three Kingdoms period. Even though the actual history of this period is often... |
 | Saison 65 - épisode 2 | The Three Kingdoms - The Battle of Guandu Yuan Shao’s forces cross the Yellow River, assaulting Cao’s fortifications. Yuan has 110,000 soldiers—including the runaway warlord Liu Bei—while... |
 | Saison 66 - épisode 1 | History of England - The 100 Years War At stake on the English side was trade, the English role in Christendom, the king’s lands in France held by right for 150 years, and the reputation... |
 | Saison 66 - épisode 2 | History of England - Fire and Swords On the 26th of August,1346, Philip's army drew near the English force. The French were strung out for miles. Phillip's best commanders advised... |
 | Saison 66 - épisode 3 | History of England - The Devastation of France From the end of the battle of Crecy, Edward charged on to besiege Calais (successfully), and then returned home. Right about then was when the Black... |
 | Saison 66 - épisode 4 | History of England - Ashes Bertrand du Guesclin was the hero the French needed. Focused on fortifying defenses and cities, Guesclin rebutted the advances of the Black... |
 | Saison 66 - épisode 5 | History of England - Agincourt Henry V was formidable and ruthless. Leading an army struck by dysentery, he pressed on to claim more large swaths of France, forming the... |
 | Saison 66 - épisode 6 | History of England - A New Future The 116-year struggle helped define and unite the English. In France, the wars forced the kings to tackle the separatist forces, and France would... |
 | Saison 67 - épisode 1 | Joan of Arc - The Mad King Before we can really get into Joan of Arc's life, we have to get a bit into the civil war between the Burgundians and the Armagnacs. Time for some... |
 | Saison 67 - épisode 2 | Joan of Arc - Angels and Demons Joan of Arc was on a mission from God--a mission to guide the Armagnacs into a holy war. |
 | Saison 67 - épisode 3 | Joan of Arc - The Maid of Orleans When Joan met the army of Orleans, they weren't exactly keen on her idea to just GET 'EM and go completely offensive--thinking she would have more... |
 | Saison 67 - épisode 4 | Joan of Arc - Thy Kingdom Come City after city surrendered to Joan of Arc without a fight. Her mission was complete... or was it? |
 | Saison 67 - épisode 5 | Joan of Arc - Heroine or Heretic? Joan had been sold out to the English. Bishop Pierre Cauchon was determined to prove the inaccuracy of her visions and her motivations so that... |
 | Saison 68 - épisode 1 | The Warsaw Uprising - The Unstoppable Spirit of the Polish Resistance The Polish are determined to make Poland matter on the world stage, and they will not wait for whatever mercies may come from the Russians. So the... |
 | Saison 69 - épisode 1 | Hogs in History - Creator and Destroyer In 1494, among the colonization forces from Spain, eight pigs arrived in Cuba. With multiple uses in culinary and craft trades, as well as their... |
 | Saison 70 - épisode 1 | The Inca Empire - Out of Thin Air There's a lot that we don't know for sure about the Inca Empire, because we have conflicting accounts among Spanish colonizers, as well as the fact... |
 | Saison 70 - épisode 2 | The Inca Empire - Earth-Shaker Pachacuti, the Earth-Shaker, was the ninth leader of the Inca and the one who took the ambitions of the city of Cusco into an all-out military... |
 | Saison 70 - épisode 3 | The Inca Empire - Life of a Dead Emperor To understand daily life in the Inca Empire, we travel from Cusco to Quito (located in modern-day Ecuador), where Thupa Inca wanted to establish a... |
