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The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: The War on Drugs (Ep 2)
Season 1 Episode 75
In the early 1980s, Pablo Escobar reinvented himself. He was no longer just the man who could smuggle tonnes of cocaine into Miami - he was the succe…
1 year ago
The Hunt for Pablo Escobar: Rise of a Drug Lord (Ep 1)
Season 1 Episode 74
Colombia in the mid-20th century was a place of beauty and bloodshed - where jungle mountains sheltered rebels, the cities were ruled by oligarchs, a…
1 year ago
Destroying the Nazi Nuclear Program: Saving the World From War (Ep 2)
Season 1 Episode 73
Who was the Nazi General who called the Allied Gunnerside mission “the most splendid coup I have seen?” How did the Norwegians stop the Nazis' nuclea…
1 year ago
Destroying the Nazi Nuclear Program: Bombing Norway (Ep 1)
Season 1 Episode 72
What was the most dangerous mission of World War II? How did a small team of Norwegian skiers stop the Nazis from building a nuclear bomb? And, what …
1 year ago
Israel Attacks Iran: The Dawn of Cyber Warfare (Ep 4)
Season 1 Episode 71
How did the Stuxnet cyberweapon, designed to be covert, break out into the wild? What were the world-changing implications of this sophisticated atta…
1 year ago
Israel Attacks Iran: The Virus Spreads (Ep 3)
Season 1 Episode 70
What was the "horse blanket" and how did it guide Obama's decisions on cyber warfare? How did the Stuxnet virus evolve to target Iran's centrifuges m…
1 year ago
Israel Attacks Iran: Mossad’s First Assault (Ep 2)
Season 1 Episode 69
How did Israel and the US develop this new type of weapon which they would unleash upon Iran? Who will they rely on to get it into the system? And ho…
1 year ago
Israel Attacks Iran: The Origins of the Iranian Nuclear Programme (Ep 1)
Season 1 Episode 68
When did Israel first attack Iran’s nuclear program? How did they do it? And how did Iran develop its nuclear program that has shaped so much of the …
1 year ago
The Great Betrayal: Defecting to Moscow (Ep 2)
Season 1 Episode 67
How do you switch sides and become a spy for the KGB? When the FBI is tracking you, how do you escape the country? And what is life like for a traito…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Great Betrayal: An American Traitor (Ep 1)
Season 1 Episode 66
How did an alcoholic, drug-addicted hippie end up working for the CIA? How are CIA agents trained? And what is the real purpose of a lie detector tes…
1 year, 1 month ago