In a century riddled with unrest, World War Two remains the epic tale... an event of unparalleled impact. Even now, we are uncovering new information. about secret weapons... and villainous tactics, about extraordinary heroism... and boundless shame; about a time when one life or one bullet, or one bomb separated infamy and glory... defeat and victory... tyranny and freedom... untold stories of World War II. On the 16th of July, 1945... a bomb exploded in the American desert a very different kind of bomb. The furious energy of the atom had been unleashed. That power might have landed in the wrong hands, had a few brave men not waged a secret war against Germany's atomic program. At the height of the Second World War, Germany's Nazi Party marched toward global domination, led by its ambitious, remorseless leader. Adolph Hitler had the will to conquer the world. All he needed was the weapon. And he had found the means to make one in the most unlikely place. It was here, in the snow-packed mountains of Norway, that a handful of soldiers on skis fought to stop Hitler's dream of possessing the ultimate weapon. Old men now, they remember how they risked their young lives for the cause of liberty.
History
Pearl Harbor Legacy of Attack.
They were 18, or 19, or 20 years old sailors in a tropical paradise. They didn't know that on the other side of the ocean, another group of young men was preparing to strike them while they slept. Their paths would cross for a few short hours on a Sunday morning in December. And in one terrifying instant, more than 1000 of them would die. The legacy of what happened on December 7th still haunts us today. In the first images from inside the U.S.S. Arizona, an underwater cemetery that's also an ecological time bomb. In the search for a top secret Japanese submarine that was sunk about an hour before the attack began. The submarine's heading north starting to dive and in the quest to learn what really happened that day. And most of all, it still lives on in the memories of the men who were there when everything changed. Just a young kid when this happened, and I've lived through it. I lost a lot of my friends. I reached down to try and help him and the skin all came off. But I hope it never happens again.
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Pompeii The Last Day
Is it coming from the mountain, from the Vesuvius? It seems so, uncIe Master, Master, wake up What? Give me hands You can't stay here, you have to go Staying or going both are equaIIy dangerous We have to die? Mother Of course not But we're trapped, don't we? 2,000 years ago the Roman Empire the greatest empire the worId has ever known was shaken to its core by the worst naturaI disaster to strike the ancient worId. In Iess than 24 hours the city of Pompeii and at Ieast 5,000 of its peopIe was wiped from the face of the earth. Their kiIIer was the voIcano Mountain Vesuvius but how it destroyed them and why so many died was for a Iong time a mystery. Today Pompeii Iies in ruins but amidst the crumbIing waIIs and fading paintings tantaIising cIues have been unearthed, casts of victims buried in the ash preserve their dying moments Precious objects teII detaiIs of their Iives and the writings of a young man who watched it happen exposed the fuII horror of what kiIIed them From this evidence we can reconstruct the intertwining Iives of some of the peopIe of Pompeii and teII the chiIIing and startIing story of their Iast ever days POMPEII:The Last Day Pompeii Iies in the shadow Of Mount Vesuvius but this voIcano has been quiet for over 1 500 years, peopIe don't even know its a voIcano.
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Colosseum Romes Arena of Death
Rome, in the year AD 80. And the newly built Colosseum. One man who appeared in the Colosseum's inaugural games was a gladiator called Verus. So memorable was his fight that it was immortalised by one of the greatest poets of ancient Rome. Verus' words and actions in this film are based on the latest historical evidence on the lives of the gladiators. This is Verus. And this is his story. Many gladiators came from the fringes of the Roman Empire, countries like Moesia, Rome's troubled frontier in the Balkans. One day in Spring the Romans attacked our village. Our women and children fled. We stayed and fought. But we never stood a chance. And so I became a slave. It took 50 days to reach Italy. We were all sold off at auction. I was still strong and ended up in a quarry outside of Rome. We called it the pit. At midday it felt as if you were being baked alive. We had a saying: There are no old bones in the pit. We worked from sunrise to sunset, every day. But they didn't break me. The slaves in the quarry were cutting stone for a vast new construction project in the centre of Rome. It was financed from here, the imperial treasury which contained loot seized from the temple of Jerusalem during the Judean wars seven years before.
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