One of the most heart-rending stories of World War II. The Franks, who lived in Amsterdam, were one of the many Jewish families forced into hiding to escape Nazi persecution. Anne records all that happens in her diary, as her tale of fear, romance and treachery moves to a tragic ending. A BBC Production.

Entre 1862 y 1863, Puebla se convirtió en el escenario de dos episodios de gran importancia en la historia de México: la batalla del 5 de mayo y el Sitio de Puebla. Puebla heroica, una serie en dos capítulos con entrevistas a destacados especialistas, narra el heroísmo y la tragedia que marcaron ambos momentos, destacando el papel de sus protagonistas en estos sucesos que contribuyeron de manera decisiva a construir la identidad nacional. Between...

In the final episode, Simon Sebag Montefiore follows the Habsburgs to their dramatic demise. From his struggles with Napoleon III and Bismarck and the suicide of his son Rudolf, to the assassination of his beautiful wife Sisi, Emperor Franz Josef's empire and his family proved impossible to control. But while the Habsburgs headed for extinction, Vienna blossomed. As the theories of Freud and the sensuality of the secession artists like Klimt and Schiele...

This video follows Dickens through a wide range of city locations, visiting the sites of the debtor's prison where his father was held, and to the blacking factory where Charles, a newly impoverished child, worked with the poorest of the poor. It takes in the House of Parliament where he served his time as reporter and honed his skills as a writer, and his home near King's Cross Station. It also includes a visit to Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey,...

Historian Peter Barton concludes his history of the battle in the final months of the campaign. He shows how a remarkable German tactical revolution begun in the summer of 1916 continued throughout this period to frustrate the Allied advance. This would have profound implications, tragically extending the entire First World War far beyond Allied expectations. Barton also presents a new narrative which argues that the battle of the Somme ended not...

After successful trading missions to the Spice Islands (Indonesia) the Dutch established the East India Company (VOC) which was to grow into the world’s largest multi-national corporation in the 17th century. The VOC developed a near monopoly of the Asian spice trade and its huge maritime fleet became the world’s most powerful and profitable shipping company. Far from celebrating their so called “Golden Age”, the Dutch today are actively debating...

Part 1 of this series explores how the movement grew out of the Church-dominated period of the Middle Ages and how various complex forces gave rise to new scientific discovery. During the Middle Ages, society believed the classical teachings of Aristotle and Plato. The Earth-centered solar system, as described by Ptolemy, was considered fact. The notion that our solar system was actually Sun-centered and that the Earth and other planets moved about...

From 1900 to 1950, crime decreased from its peak in the mid-1800s, assisted by improvements in detection techniques like police forensics. But after 1950, it escalated again, with the trade in drugs and other contraband across global borders, political violence, terrorism, and cybercrime all flourishing. This clip looks at how changes over the last century have been reflected in British crime, law enforcement, and punishment.

This program is a chronicle of the Persian Empire, a major force that heavily influenced competing cultures and achieved scholastic and engineering breakthroughs that were the envy of the ancient world.

Stephen Smith explores Renaissance Florence under the reign of Grand Duke Cosimo Medici. Cosimo’s fledgling court prized the finer things in life and some of the greatest painters, sculptors and craftsmen in world history came to serve the Grand Duke. Successful courtiers had to have brains as well as brawn. The canniest of them looked to theorists like Niccolo Machiavelli for underhanded ways to get ahead, whilst enlightened polymaths turned their...