Dark Secret

Archaeologists have uncovered a mystery in the heart of London. Unearthed during the excavations of Europe’s biggest building project, the new Crossrail train network, are dozens of skulls from the days of Roman London, found in clusters under the city’s surface. Show More

For three and a half years, Ruth Jeffrey was subjected to emotional and mental abuse at the hands of an unknown social media stalker who distributed naked photos of her. When the stalker was finally caught, the man’s identify proved as traumatic as what she had already endured Show More

Newlywed Anni Dewani had just begun her honeymoon in Cape Town when she was abruptly kidnapped and murdered. Show More

It’s a rainy autumn night in April 1970 in the affluent suburb of Constantia, Cape Town. A small desk is set for dinner in the large well-appointed study of a palatial mansion. There are signs of a meal interrupted, a chair overturned, and the outstretched body of a beautiful young woman, Susan Cohen, laying outstretched […]

In the heart of the French region of Burgundy lies a hidden city that’s been dormant for 2,000 years. It’s called Bibracte. Thanks to topographic maps using LIDAR technology as well as spectacular computer-generated imagery, you’re about to discover the evidence of galloping Romanization, notably through a sophisticated hydraulic system, a forum, and a basilica. […]

The Founding Fathers yearned for a nation of individual liberty. However, the origins of America were overflowing with a deep-seated paradox. It’s ironic how America’s Founding Fathers established a nation of individual liberty while many owned slaves. Show More

The 31st president, Herbert Hoover, was an Iowa native who had the misfortune to be in the White House when the stock market crashed in 1929. He presided over the Great Depression’s early years before losing his reelection bid to FDR in 1932. An engineer by profession, Hoover directed WWI-era humanitarian aid to Europe and […]

The bonds between the crew members of Arizona have lasted far beyond the ship’s loss on 7 December. Since 1982, the U.S. Navy has allowed survivors of USS Arizona to be interred in the ship’s wreckage upon their deaths. In this moving tribute using archival footage, aerial drones and contemporary interviews, we follow the family […]

Writer and historian Dr. Helen Castor explores the life and death of Joan of Arc. Joan was an extraordinary figure, a female warrior born in an age that believed women couldn’t fight, let alone lead an army. But Joan was driven by faith, and today more than ever, we are acutely aware of the power […]

The life of John F. Kennedy is so often defined by his death. His assassination in November 1963 came to be seen as a turning point for America, a shift from an age of innocence and hope to one of violence and change. JFK himself was transformed from man into legend. But that reading of […]