Neuschwanstein is Louis II of Bavaria's 19th-century fairy-tale castle that inspired Walt Disney. Inside, medieval fantasy hides modern innovation: steel beams, plumbing, and central heating.

Begun in 1882, the Sagrada Família became Gaudí's radical engineering laboratory. In 2026, the church yet to be finished, builders use modern engineering to raise the 170-metre spires above Barcelona.

With Nazi Germany's rise to power, an abandoned canal was resurrected; the true purpose of this project came into question with rumours it harboured a secret that could turn the tide of the war.

The games and entertainment, plus violence as a political instrument, with the Battle of Laugaricio (modern-day Slovakia), portraits of Commodus and Lucilla, and the legendary Colosseum.

With Nazi Germany's rise to power, an abandoned canal was resurrected; the true purpose of this project came into question with rumours it harboured a secret that could turn the tide of the war.

An Indian jewel at the time of the Mughal Empire is linked to centuries of greed and bloodshed, and a fatal road trip in 1950s Los Angeles extinguishes one of Hollywood's brightest stars.

Hitler and Stalin begin to shape the course of history. President Roosevelt attempts to raise his country out of the Depression, and the world teeters on the brink of yet another World War.

The Eastern Front saw Hitler's most brutal WWII campaigns, but it is also where the Soviets, with mastery of the ground on which they lived, beat him all the way back to Berlin.

Erwin Rommel earned fame for his tactical brilliance, while walking a tightrope between duty and personal ambition under Hitler's rule. As the tides turned, he's pulled into a plot against the Führer.

Aachen Cathedral is a 1,200-year engineering marvel. We decode the 'smart' mortar, the hidden iron ring stabilising the cupola, and the metal reinforcements that let stained glass replace stone.

For 2,600 years, Carcassonne has stood as Europe's ultimate fortress. Blending archaeology and engineering, we learn how innovation, strategy and restoration shaped an 'impregnable' citadel.

This iconic statue was a gift from France to the new-born American Republic. The documentary brings us at the heart of the Statue's construction, revealing the founding ideals of our democracies.

Bettany travels to Bulgaria to explore a 6000-year-old gold treasure hoard and enter a 2300-year-old tomb in the Valley of the Thracian Kings with extraordinary vibrant frescos still intact.

Hitler's invasion of the Rhineland was a gamble that paid off as his push west remained unchecked; while the leaders of Europe attempt 'peace', Kristallnacht signalled the horrors yet to come to many.

When Japan attacked Pearl Harbor in December 1941, it won a battle and inherited a geographic problem. How to hold and defend a vast island empire scattered across the largest ocean on earth?

Could an exhibit from an oddities museum in Niagara Falls be a genuine long-lost pharaoh from Egypt's most iconic dynasty? A team of leading Egyptologists and scientists re-examine the evidence.

Items stolen by tourists from the doomed Roman city of Pompeii have created misery and misfortune; meanwhile, a trove of precious artworks considered destroyed or lost forever is discovered in Germany.

As Hitler engulfed Europe, old castles across the continent fell under Nazi control; once symbols of nobility and culture, these fortresses were transformed to serve the ambitions of the Third Reich.

War, loyalty, citizenship and the plots of a changing empire with the massacres of Alexandria, portraits of Caracalla and Julia Domna, and the extraordinary Baths of Caracalla.

Filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl created propaganda that helped mythologise Hitler and seduce a nation into extremism. After the fall of the Third Reich, she spent a lifetime denying responsibility.

Aachen Cathedral is a 1,200-year engineering marvel. We decode the 'smart' mortar, the hidden iron ring stabilising the cupola, and the metal reinforcements that let stained glass replace stone.

For 2,600 years, Carcassonne has stood as Europe's ultimate fortress. Blending archaeology and engineering, we learn how innovation, strategy and restoration shaped an 'impregnable' citadel.