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Back to SearchPanama Canal: A Corridor of Corpses
Season 1 Episode 76
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The Panama Canal wasn't built, it was bled into existence.
What began in the 1880s as a grand French dream quickly unraveled into a ni…
1 year, 2 months ago
Greatness Demands Blood
Season 1 Episode 75
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What does it mean to be great—truly great? Once, the title was thundered through history: Alexander the Great, Catherine the Great, P…
1 year, 2 months ago
Alexander: The Shadow Before the Storm (Part Two)
Season 1 Episode 74
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As Alexander the Great marched into the scorched lands of India, his ambition had become something more than hunger, it was obsession…
1 year, 3 months ago
Alexander: The Shadow Before the Storm (Part One)
Season 1 Episode 73
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Born in blood and prophecy in 356 BC, Alexander of Macedonia was never meant for peace. His mother, Olympias, whispered of divine anc…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Great Fire of London - The Ashes of 1666
Season 1 Episode 72
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In the early hours of September 1666, a single spark in a baker’s shop ignited an unstoppable force—one that would consume the very s…
1 year, 3 months ago
Christmas: A Spell Cast in Time
Season 1 Episode 71
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From humble beginnings in a Bethlehem stable to the firelit pages of Dickensian London… from the legend of a gift-giving bishop who b…
1 year, 3 months ago
The Colosseum: Theatre of Human Ruin
Season 1 Episode 70
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Step into the shadow of ancient Rome, where blood was currency, death was performance, and the roar of 50,000 voices could drown a ma…
1 year, 4 months ago
Persia: The First Superpower
Season 1 Episode 69
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Persia—land of fire, kings, and legends—was no ordinary empire. It was the original superpower: vast, visionary, and astonishingly ah…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sliding Doors of History
Season 1 Episode 67
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What if history didn’t have to end the way it did?
What ifs, those tantalising counterfactuals, are more than thought experiments. The…
1 year, 4 months ago
Sea Wolf Rising (Part Three)
Season 1 Episode 66
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In the fading light of empire, Lord Thomas Cochrane stood not as a relic—but as a scar that refused to fade.
Once branded a traitor, i…
1 year, 5 months ago