It's History
Date de parution : 3 novembre 2014
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | The Berlin Wall and Peaceful Revolutions The first episode of INTO CONTEXT is here! 25 years ago the Berlin Wall fell - peacefully, without guns, without casualties. Conflicts of this ilk... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Oktoberfest and the World’s Greatest Parties There is a festival in Germany where people drink beer and forget the everyday troubles even, if it is just for a day or a few hours. The “Beer... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Ebola and Media Hysteria? In this episode we talk about the dangerous virus that causes a worldwide hysteria: Ebola. But how exactly is the virus spreading and is the medial... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Amelia Earhart and (un)solved Mysteries The things we can't explain fascinate us the most. The mysterious disappearing of Amelia Earhart, inexplicable phenomenons and legendary figures... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 5 | Active Volcanoes, Natural Disasters and the Fate of Humanity On the 24th of November, a volcano erupted on the Cape Verde island of Fogo - hundreds had to be evacuated. Catastrophes like volcanoes, floods and... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 6 | Ferguson and the Grand Jury System The controversial decision by the Grand Jury to not indict Darren Wilson after his deadly shots on Michael Brown in Ferguson has sparked a new wave... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 7 | Beheadings And The Modern Jihad Videos showing the execution of journalists, aid helpers or civilians by ISIS fighters are shown frequently in modern media. Beheadings as deterrent... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 8 | Christmas Traditions Every year, it's the same: people rush from store to store to get gifts for their beloved ones. Christmas develops even more into a consume driven... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 9 | The Legalization of Cannabis Cannabis, Marihuana or just Pot. However you want to call it or how people are consuming it, in quite a few countries and US states, it is legal now... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 10 | The Streisand Effect - Trying to Hide Things On The Internet One of the biggest news stories this Christmas was the (un-)cancelled release of Sony Pictures' movie "The Interview". In the movie, Seth Rogan and... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 11 | Kanye & McCartney - The History of Music Collaborations The announced collaboration between rap genius Kanye West and 'Beatles' legend Paul McCartney caused quite an uproar in various social networks. But... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 12 | Charlie Hebdo - The History of Satire The terrorist attack on French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo shocked the world and spawned a global wave of solidarity under the slogan... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 13 | Taylor Swift And Music Genre Crossover Taylor Swift's album 1989 was the most sold album of 2014. But it was also a notable break with her country music past that made her famous in the... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Let There Be Light - The Invention of the Light Bulb Welcome to IT'S HISTORY! We are kicking off this new history channel by taking you on a journey through the Industrial Revolution. In our first... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Adam Smith - The Inventor of Market Economy Adam Smith was one of the first men who explored economic connections in England and made clear, in a time when Mercantilism reigned, that the... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Reasons for the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution transformed and shaped our modern world as we know it. Why did the fundamental changes of the Industrial Revolution begin... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Phonograph vs. Gramophone - The Invention of Sound Recording Part 1 The desire to record the human voice can be traced back to the 10th century. Thomas Edison is the first man who finally crafted the phonograph, a... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 5 | Jane Austen - A Briography of Pride and Prejudice Nowadays, Jane Austen is one of the world's most well known female authors. Just about everybody has heard of her books like Pride and Prejudice or... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 6 | The Steam Machine Changes the World The invention of the steam machine and innovations related to it in the textile industry really got the Industrial Revolution going. First they... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 7 | Along Comes the Walkman - Sound Recording Part 2 Even though the invention of the record made conservation of sound and music possible, neither the devices nor the records enabled the listener to... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 8 | The MP3 Wins! - Sound Recording Part 3 Not too long ago, you needed to carry around fairly big and heavy devices, like the walkman or the discman to listen to music on the go - not to... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 9 | From Steam Machine to Locomotive he invention of the steam machine changed the world. Many smart engineers worked on perfecting the efficiency of this groundbreaking technology. But... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 10 | Karl Marx - The Revolutionary Scholar Karl Marx is considered one of the most important philosophical scholars of all times. The changes the industrial revolution brought to society... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 11 | Changing Time - Railroads & Canals It certainly is no big deal to have a small cruise along the canals or ride a train. But what is essential infrastructure today had to be invented... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 12 | Fighting Disease - The Invention of Modern Immune-Medicine The history of Immunology could started as early as 2000 years ago in China. But it took hundreds of years for Immune-Medicine to be researched... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 13 | Florence Nightingale - The Mother of Modern Nursing Florence Nightingale saw the catastrophic conditions of the Crimean War first hand. She worked day and night as a nurse to improve the hygienic... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 14 | The Industrial Revolution Comes to Europe and America! After the Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain, it soon arrived in continental Europe and in the US. Brett explains how the rest of the... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 15 | The Invention of the Telephone Each country claims that their inventors came up with the idea of the telephone. A world without it is hardly imaginable, so, who could blame them.... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 16 | Alexander von Humboldt - The Great Explorer Alexander von Humboldt was one of the last big explorers and polymath. Living in the time of the Industrial Revolution, Humboldt adapted the idea of... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 17 | The Workers Rights Revolution The Industrial Revolution did not simply change the way we work and how it is organized, it also had a profound impact on the situation of workers... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 18 | Say Cheese! - The Invention of Photography The desire to capture life in images is as old as humanity itself. But only with new chemical processes and inventions did it become possible to... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 19 | Fighter for Quality - Susan B. Anthony Susan B. Anthony fought for the equality of men and women and equal rights during her lifetime. With her revolutionary view on emancipation and her... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 20 | Arts and Culture During the Industrial Revolution The Industrial Revolution did not just change the way we work but our very social fabric. So, it is only natural that arts and culture underwent a... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 21 | The Invention of the Car A world without cars is beyond our imagination. Our infrastructure and our whole life is based around the automobile. And that even though the first... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 22 | Charles Darwin - Prophet of Evolution Charles Darwin's theories on evolution and the origin of species changed Science forever and laid ground for our modern understanding of evolution.... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 23 | Mass Production and the Road to World War 1 At the end of the 19th century, the inventions of the Industrial Revolution create a whole set of new industrial branches. The second wave of the... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 24 | The Era of Queen Victoria Queen Victoria was the longest reigning British monarch and defined her era like no other King or Queen before her. But what made the Victorian Era... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Lazy and Generous - A Pirate's Life The life of a pirate during the golden age of piracy followed certain codes and rules. The share a buccaneer got of the loot and other rules were... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | The Greatest Pirate of the Caribbean - Black Bart Roberts During the Golden Age of Piracy, there was one captain who became a legend. He invented the pirate code, had the biggest stach of loot among them... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Pirate Battle Tactics During the Golden Age In our new format called BATTLEFIELDS, Indy tells you all about the tactics used by pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy in the early 18th... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | The Golden Age of Piracy When you think about pirates, you most probably think of them during the golden age or piracy in the early 18th century. In our episode we tell you... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 5 | The Most Famous Female Pirates Piracy way, like many other parts dominated by men. But throughout history, several female pirates showed their male counterparts how it's really... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 6 | The Modern Myth - Pirates in Pop Culture The modern image of pirates is very much shaped by glorified stories from books such as the Treasure Island or more recent movies like the Pirates... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 7 | Blackbeard's Last Stand Few pirates are became as legendary as Blackbeard aka.Edward Teach. He was one of the most notorious pirates during the golden age of piracy and the... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 8 | Bone Saw and Syphilis - Medicine at Sea Longer raid tours meant an increased risk of injuries for pirates. Medical equipment or even doctors on board where a bigger treasure than any booty... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 9 | Somali Fishermen and Digital Piracy Even today people identify with the anarchist ideals of piracy. The Pirate Party and the activists around the file sharing platform The Pirate Bay... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 10 | The Epic Failure of the Spanish Armada History had rarely seen a fleet the size of the Spanish Armada. But rarely had it also seen such epic failure. The Armada of King Philip II of Spain... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 11 | Isn't That India? - Navigation at Sea Since the dawn of seafaring our ancestors had ways to navigate the seven seas. How did Navigation work before GPS and Google Maps? In our new... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 12 | The Battle of Trafalgar - Admiral Nelson's Moment It was the defining moment of the British Naval history and let the groundwork for their naval superiority over the next centuries. Horatio Nelson's... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Zero Hour - Origins of the Cold War The origins of the Cold War can be traced back to World War 1 and World War 2. In the final months of World War 2, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 2 | The Korean War - The Cold War Turns Hot! Not so long after World War 2, the Cold War had its first very hot conflict. After the separation of Korea into a communist north and a pro-western... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 3 | The Iron Curtain Has Decended and Germany Gets Divided The agreements made late during World War 2 were soon to become obsolete when the USSR and the Allies couldn't agree on the economic future of... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Weapons of Mass Destruction "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." a famous quote from Robert Oppenheimer the father of the Atomic Bomb. The most obvious Weapon of... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 5 | The Father of the Berlin Wall - Walter Ulbricht "No one intends to build a wall!“ - Walter Ulbricht's famous quote, implying that nobody would dare to close the borders between West Germany and... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 6 | On the Pitch and in Space - The Contest of Ideologies The Cold War certainly happened on a multitude of fronts like sports, science and of course the military. Each super power had to prove that their... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 7 | A Child of War - Invention of the Computer When Alan Turing built his first computer to crack the Nazi codes of the Enigma with his Turing Machine, he was far from the first one to think of... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 8 | Proxy War in Nicaragua - US-Arms Deals with Iran Nicaragua is a perfect example of a small Latin American country being under crossfire by super powers. During the Cold War Communism seems a viable... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 9 | The Cuban Missile Crisis and Espionage During the Cold War Espionage is what we don't know much about but what we instantly connect to the Cold War. Especially, the CIA and the KGB with their double agents... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 10 | Cats, Memes and Porn - The History of the Internet t’s hard to imagine what our world would be like today without the invention of the internet. What it means to our society can be answered in many... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 11 | The First Woman in Space - Valentina Tereshkova Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. As a citizen of the Soviet Union she became a symbol of defeat to the West during the Space Race.... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 12 | The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking! - The Cold War Arms Race If it's 5 to 12, it's certainly time to do something to avoid a catastrophe. That metaphor is actually based on the doomsday clock, an imaginary... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 13 | Turning Point of the Vietnam War - The Tet Offensive The Vietnam War is the most prominent of the proxy wars during the Cold War. The turning point in the conflict was the Tet Offensive. A huge attack... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 14 | The Electronic Revolution - The Synthesizer Until the 50s, the production of music was only possible with classical instruments. But during the time of rapid changes after World War 2, the old... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 15 | Beatniks, Hippies and Free Love - The Counterculture Following the Second World war, a new generation prospers and they are sick of their parents old certitudes. They despise war and dream of a new... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 16 | Between the Sexes - Sports Legend Ewa Klobukowska Ewa Klobukowska was a successful Polish athlete and she set several records during her career. When it came to her qualification for the Olympic... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 17 | The Soviet Master Spy - Rudolf Abel Trenchcoats, bugs and secret agents are things we all know from the movies. But the Cold War was a busy time for spies from the USA and the Soviet... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 18 | X-Men, Star Trek and Lord of the Rings - Cold War Culture What do Wolverine, Mr. Spock and Gandalf have in common? Their creators were all children of the Cold War during which arts and culture underwent a... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 19 | The Falklands War - A War for Lost Glory The Falklands War was based on an old colonial struggle between two former world powers. When the military Junta in Argentina decided to claim the... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 20 | Hunting the Communists! - Joseph McCarthy Joseph McCarthy rose to fame during the 1950s fighting communism on American soil. The ever lingering fear of Soviet spies spreading un-Americanism... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 21 | Fall of the Iron Curtain The Fall of the Berlin Wall is the event that stands out among the Revolutions of 1989 that ended the Cold War. The peaceful revolution and the... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 22 | Fast Food - Would You Like Capitalism With That? A city that is not plastered with branches of US Fast Food chains is a rare sight nowadays. That wasn't always the case. Fast Food, as we know it... | |
| Saison 4 - épisode 23 | Jihad with US-Arms - The Soviet-Afghan War When the Soviet Union intervened in Afghan Civil War, they created a spiral of violence that is still going on till this day. On the one side the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 1 | War and Power Play at the Yellow River - The Chinese Bronze Age When you talk about the history of China, you have to go back in time starting in the Bronze Age which is the time of China's first dynasties:... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 2 | The Invention of Writing, Paper and Print! The invention of script, paper and printing can be credited to the Chinese. It was in China that Cai Lun, in his emperor’s service, made the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Confucius - Master of Philosophy and Fortune Cookies! Confucius is probably the best known Chinese philosopher of all times. Although he developed his theories about 2500 years ago, his ancient ideas of... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Imperial China Is Born! - The Qin and Han Dynasty Some linguists say, the name of today's China originates from the name of the Qin dynasty. Marking the beginning of the age of empire in China and... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 5 | Martial Arts - Fighting for the Perfect Body and Mind Kung fu, tai chi, Wing Chun - China's martial arts have many faces. Used as a mean of attack, self-defense or merely to train for the perfect... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 6 | The Three Teachings - Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism The Three Teachings Taoism, Buddhism and Confucianism have been a backbone of Chinese society and culture since the bronze age. The Three teachings... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 7 | The Fall of the Golden Age - The Tang Dynasty The Tang Dynasty has left legacies that remained until the end of imperial China. Founded after the victory of Li Yuan, who became the first Emperor... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 8 | How a Concubine Became the Empress of China - Wu Zetian Wu Zetian was the first and only Empress of China. Skillfully, she worked her way up, entering the imperial court of Emperor Tang Taizong as a... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 9 | Sun Tzu - The Art of War Sun Tzu's "The Art of War" is a book on military strategies written around 500 BC, between the collapse of the Zhou dynasty and the rise of the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 10 | And Then Came Genghis Khan - Sorrow of the Song Dynasty The Song dynasty is often described as an early modern economy. It marked a lot of economical changes from previous dynasties. Starting with the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 11 | A Tale of Swords and Gunpowder - Weapons in Ancient China Dao, Gun, Jian and Quiang are the four main traditional fighting weapons of China. Even though, the Chinese had already invented gunpowder by the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 12 | Battle of the Red Cliffs - Three Kingdoms for China The legendary Battle of the Red Cliffs marks the end of the four century old Han dynasty. Poverty, famine and floods lead to uprisings such as the... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 13 | Downfall of the Superpower China - Ming and Qin Dynasty With the dynasties of the Ming and the Qing came social security and flourishing international trade. The White Lotus Movement advocated progressive... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 14 | China Rules the Seas - The Invention of the Junk Imperial China was a great seafaring nation. With the invention of the junks, massive, nearly unsinkable ships, it is safe to say that by the 14th... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 15 | The Opium War - Lost in Compensation The Opium War started as a dispute over trading rights between China and Great Britain. Regular trade between Europe and the Chinese had been... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 16 | The Century of Humiliation - Part 1 The period between the 1840s and the 1940s is known as China’s Century of Humiliation. During this time, the country suffered huge internal... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 17 | The Boxer Rebellion The Boxer Rebellion was one of China's biggest uprisings against the unwanted European, US-American and Japanese Imperialism. Distrust and tensions... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 18 | Cixi: All Power to the Empress Dowager Empress Dowager Cixi took over the rule of mighty Imperial China in the late 19th century. After her son Tongzhi succeeded his father Emperor... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 19 | The Century of Humiliation - Part 2 The oppression of the Chinese people during the first half of the Century of Humiliation increased unrest in the country. More and more... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 20 | The Father of Modern China - Sun Yat-sen Sun Yat-sen is known as the 'father of modern China'. He spent his adult life fighting against imperial China and the ruling Qing dynasty. First as... | |
| Saison 5 - épisode 21 | The Chinese Civil War - Blood for Unity After the fall of the Qing dynasty China fell apart and both, forces loyal to Chiang Kais-shek's National Kuomintang Party and as Mao Zedong's... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Greek Orgies, Roman Brothels and the Kama Sutra Sex already played a vital role in the societies of Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome. Who could have intercourse with whom was laid out carefully.... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 2 | The Queen of Lesbos - Poetess Sappho The Greek poetess Sappho from the Isle of Lesbos is the most important female lyricist of the classical age. She worshipped women and often... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 3 | Playing with Pleasure - History of Sex Toys Erotic sex toys like dildos are no modern day invention. Thousands of years ago, stone phalli already served their purposes contributing to lust and... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 4 | The Dark Ages of Sex - All Pleasure Is Sin! Sex became a sin in the Middle Ages. Following the promiscuous Ancient Rome and Greece, the Western World was indoctrinated with Medieval concepts... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 5 | The Trojan War - A Tale of Passion and Bloodshed! The Trojan War is one of the most epic and passionate legends set in Greek Mythology. Legend has it, that Prince Paris fell in love with the... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 6 | Better Safe Than Sorry! - The History of Contraception The development of contraceptives has come a long way. It all started with questionable ointments and rituals to avoid pregnancy. The effectiveness... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 7 | Sexual Enlightenment - Defining What Is Normal With Sexual Enlightenment came radical changes to the perception of sex in society. This episode on sex in modernity covers discussions held in... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 8 | Sex Is a Basic Instinct - Sigmund Freud The psychologist Sigmund Freud spent much of his life trying to understand how the human psyche functions. Famously sorting the human consciousness... | |
| Saison 6 - épisode 9 | The Power of Sex - Cleopatra, Caesar and Mark Antony Cleopatra, the most famous queen of Egypt, reigned as last female pharao. She fell for the powerful Roman statesman Julius Caesar and her son... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Baldwin IV - The Leper King of Jerusalem On today's episode on It's History we take a brief look at Baldwin IV - the 12th century ruler of Jerusalem bound with an incurable disease.... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 2 | Vlad the Impaler - The Real Dracula Some of us know that Dracula actually existed, but hardly anyone knows his biography. Vlad Tepesz was the ruler of Wallachia and a fierce enemy of... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 3 | The Attack of the Living Dead - 1915 In 1915 the events known as 'the attack of the living dead' took place in Osowiec. It's not just a simple horror story, but a terrifying reality... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 4 | Saladin - Sword of Islam Saladin was the famous muslim leader during the time of crusades. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 5 | Ivan the Terrible - The First Russian Tsar Ivan IV Vasilyevich commonly known as Ivan the Terrible was the first tsar of Russia. Did he deserve his title? | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 6 | Curse of the Friday the 13th On today's episode we are going to talk about the end of the Templar Order and the famous curse of Jacques de Molay. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 7 | Amputations in the Napoleonic Wars In this episode we are going to talk about amputations in the Napoleonic Wars. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 8 | Secrets of the Medieval Steel Today we are going to tell you how medieval weapons were made. We went to the Wolin island, for the biggest viking festival in Poland to learn the... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 9 | Landsknechts - Most Brutal Mercenaries of the Renaissance Today we are going to tell you about The Landsknechts - german mercenaries from the 16th century with a very formidable reputation. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 10 | The Truth About Viking Armor Skål! Today we are gonna talk about some myths and misconceptions about the vikings and their weapons. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 11 | Armors of the Crusades In this episode we'll talk about the armors that were used during the First Crusade. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 12 | Medieval Tank - The 13th Century Knight This time we will take you back to middle ages. It's 13th century - what did medieval armor look like? | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 13 | Danse Macabre - Dancing Plague of 1518 Let’s get this party started! Today we are going to talk about the mysterious dancing plague of 1518. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 14 | Blood & Glory - The Truth About Gladiators Today we will travel back in time to the ancient Rome. Who were the Gladiators? | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 15 | The Impenetrable Armor? In today's episode we move past the 13th century to talk about the plate armor. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 16 | Suleiman the Magnificent In today's episode we will tell you the story of the most famous sultan of the Ottoman Empire. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 17 | The Nizaris - Real Assassins Learn the real story behind the Assassin's Creed series. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 18 | Joan of Arc - The Maid of Orléans Today we will tell you the story of Joan of Arc - Roman Catholic saint and national heroine of France. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 19 | Gilles de Rais - French Dracula He fought side-by-side with Joan of Arc, but he also held terrible secret. Meet Gilles de Rais - medieval serial killer. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 20 | Napoleon - Rise to Power Learn how Napoleon came to power. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 21 | Napoleon - Conquering Europe In this episode we continue the story of Napoleon Bonaparte. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 22 | Battle of Hattin - Fall of the Crusades Battle of Hattin (also known as the Battle of the Horns of Hattin) was one of the most important battles in the history of Crusades. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 23 | Tokugawa Ieyasu - Shogun of Japan Meet the founder and first shōgun of the Tokugawa shogunate of Japan. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 24 | T.E. Lawrence - Lawrence of Arabia Who was the famous Lawrence of Arabia? | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 25 | How Vermeer Lied to Us We are sure, you have heard about Johannes Vermeer. This Dutch artist has created iconic paintings - for example "The Milkmaid" or "Girl with a... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 26 | Santa Claus - Bishop of Mira Today I will introduce you to the figure of Saint Nicholas - but not the one we know from Christmas decorations. Nicholas of Bari is a saint of both... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 27 | Masada - The Last Bastion of the Zealots Only 30 years after times described in the New Testament, the Jews sparked an uprising against Roman occupation. The retaliation of the Roman Empire... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 28 | Themistocles - Hero from Salamina Themistocles - an Athenian politician, a prominent strategist and ... a fugitive. In this episode we will tell you the story of this extraordinary... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 29 | Battle Of Ager Falernus - Remarkable Hannibal's Victory Today you will hear about how Hannibal with his army fell into an ambush and how in unusual way they got out. Will Fabius Maximus - a Roman dictator... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 30 | Jan III Sobieski - King of Poland Jan III Sobieski - an extraordinary king of Poland, known for his notable military skills and great knowledge. Let's see his way to the throne. | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 31 | Who Were the Plague Doctors? The Black Death - an epidemic that decimated medieval Europe. A disease that affected both beggars and kings. This event changed the face of history... |
