Category: Europe
Episode 3 Faith and Fury
A three part drama documentary series about Ludwig van Beethoven presented by conductor Charles Hazlewood. It takes eyewitness accounts of the composer's tragic life...
Nikola Tesla The Genius Who Lit the World
Nikola Tesla was born on July 10,1856 in Smiljan, Lika in what later became Yugoslavia. Tesla studied at the Polytechnic Institute in Graz, Austria...
Episode 2 Dream And Machine
Andrew Graham-Dixon continues his exploration of German art by looking at the tumultuous 19th century and early 20th centuryand how artists were at the...
Episode 1 The Reason Why
Documentary which reassesses the importance of the Crimean War which paved the way for modern warfare and was a urning point for Europe. Using...
Episode 2 The Valley of Death
Documentary which reassesses the importance of the Crimean War which paved the way for modern warfare and was a urning point for Europe. Using...
Episode 3 War and Peace
Documentary which reassesses the importance of the Crimean War which paved the way for modern warfare and was a urning point for Europe. Using...
Episode 5 The Mystery of the Rosetta Stone
Egypt is the title of a BBC television drama serial about various archaeological discoveries taking place in that country's history with the occasional flashback...
1873 A.D. Search for Troy
Each turning point in history has behind it a story and a set of principal characters whose dilemmas and conflicts form its dramatic core...
Eiffel Tower
Modern Marvels celebrates the ingenuityinvention and imagination found in the world around us. This series tells fascinating stories of the doers, the dreamers and...
Episode 5 The Panama Canal
The period of over 125 years from the beginning of the 19th century saw the creation of some of the world's most remarkable feats...