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In February 1945, a photographer captured the iconic image of US Marines planting the American flag atop a mountain in Iwo Jima. The identities of these men have been thought known for 70 years, but new evidence shows that one man was never identified. This film can finally reveal a new hero. Using modern science and expert investigations to examine the original photo in ways that we have never seen before, we rewrite the history books.
Lucky8 TV/Letter Ten Productions/Smithsonian Networks
Historian Lucy Worsley oversees a glorious re-imagining of the wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by experts, Lucy painstakingly recreates elements of the wedding celebrations, scouring history books, archives, newspapers and even Victoria’s very own diaries for details. Each element of the wedding will be carefully researched, remade by hand, and finally put to use in a dramatic re- staging of the big day itself.
BBC Studios Unscripted Production/BBC/PBS
King James I published a book of ‘Daemonology’ in 1597. It was a handbook on how to recognise and destroy witches. We discover how it sparked a viral outbreak of witch-hunting, initially in Britain, and later spread across the world, notably fuelling the Salem witch trials which terrorized parts of the US a hundred years later.
A remarkable new archaeological find reveals a disturbing truth behind the legend of the vampire. Brutally abused corpses, some even shackled to their coffins, have been discovered that date from hundreds to thousands of years before Dracula. This investigation will look into the darkest depths of humanity’s earliest fears of the undead and asks where these terrifying ideas came from.
Quickfire Media
In commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the Waco tragedy, we reveal first- person accounts from former and still active Branch Davidians, the men, women, and children, who followed David Koresh into the fire and lived to tell about it. Witness the rise and fall of the movement as we uncover how it related to the outside world and explore Waco’s legacy in the last 25 years — how the faithful picked up and moved on, or in some cases, didn’t.
ITN Productions/Smithsonian Networks
Discover a friendship between British Marxist and anti-Vietnam war protester, Tariq Ali, and America’s black power advocate, Malcolm X. With footage of Malcolm’s speech at Oxford University, and his own personal memories, Ali looks back at their friendship and retraces Malcolm X’s steps in Britain, France, Africa, and the Middle East and discovers how travel changed Malcolm’s previous advocacy of black separatism and the right of black Americans to use force to defend themselves.
The Unknown Flag
Raiser Of Iwo Jima
1 x 60’, 2016, 4K
The Vampire Skeletons
1 x 60’, 2011, HD
Victoria And Albert: The Wedding
2 x 60’ or 1 x 90’, 2018, HD
Waco: The Longest Siege
1 x 60’, 2018, 4K
Quickfire Media
TVT Productions/Smithsonian Networks
When Tariq Ali
Met Malcolm X
1 x 60’, 2019, HD
War On Witches
1 x 60’, 2012, HD
History