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The Templar Code
The Templar Code is an in-depth examination into the remarkable rise and rapid descent of the powerful and obscure Knights Templar.
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Riddle of The Toumai Skull
This is the story of the Toumai Skull. Scientist try to recreate the face and body from a skull found in the African county of Chad. The skull has been dated to be about seven million year ago. Meet our ancient ancestor “Toumai”
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Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor
Uncovering Our Earliest Ancestor is a documentary that tells the story of scientists searching, uncovering and analyzing fossils that might give more clues on our past. It is especially focused on the latest lemur-like fossil called “Ida”.
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The History of the Devil
The idea of “God’s evil enemy” has been around for thousands of years. While early Christian clerics used the Devil as a symbol of heresy, the concept did not begin with the Christian Bible, but rather in ancient Persia some 3500 year ago.
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The Black Death
In the 14th century the Black Death was an unprecedented human disaster. In 3 dreadful years over one third of Europe’s population was wiped out. This documentary examines the spread of the plague; its effects on medicine, religion and society at the time.
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The Lost Pyramids of Caral
The site of Caral is thousand years older than the earliest known civilisation in the Americas and, at 2,627 BC, is as old as the pyramids of Egypt. Many now believe it is the fabled missing link of archaeology – a ‘mother city’.
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Nazi Concentration Camps
Nazi Concentration Camps was entered as evidence at the 1945 Nuremberg Trials of Hermann Göring, Rudolf Hess, and 22 other Nazi officials at the end of World War II.
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Riddle of the Sphinx
Unraveling the secrets of an ancient civilization, journey through history and explore the mysteries of the Sphinx.
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Heritage of Genghis Khan
In the thirteenth century, Genghis Khan and his brutal heirs swept from the Asian Steppe as far as Eastern Europe, creating the largest land empire in world history. But who inherited his mighty Empire?
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The Time Team
About a mile outside Winchester, just outside the city boundaries, is a field which, 900 years ago, was home to the city’s outcasts. The people who lived there were united by a terrible bond – a disease that disfigured their bodies and condemned them to a life of exile. The disease was leprosy and their home was the St Mary Magdalene leper hospital.
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Kublai Khan’s Lost Fleet
Kublai Khan constructed the biggest invasion force the world has ever seen, a fleet of more than 4,400 ships to invade Japan. But at this pivotal moment in world-history the fleet vanished without a trace. What force destroyed the Mongol armada? Find out in this documentary.
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