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8 Days That Made Rome
S1, EP5 "Boudica's Revenge"Bettany Hughes turns her focus to the day when Roman troops invaded Boudica's settlement in East Anglia, provoking the disgraced Iceni queen into a revolution that threatened the Roman occupation of Britannia.
8 Days That Made Rome
S1, EP6 "The Downfall of Nero"Nero takes his own life as troops come to arrest him for crimes against the state; Bettany Hughes reveals how Nero's early reign was dominated by his mother, Agrippina, while exploring a new theory that his mood was undermined by a serious illness.
8 Days That Made Rome
S1, EP7 "Theatre of Death"Bettany Hughes relives opening day at Rome's Colosseum in 80 AD; the lavish arena is a giant new landmark for the world's greatest city where people can revel in bloodthirsty entertainments.
8 Days That Made Rome
S1, EP8 "The Rebirth of Rome"Bettany Hughes looks at the day which marked Rome's symbolic break with its 1,000-year pagan past, the moment in 337 AD when Emperor Constantine the Great was baptized as a Christian; Hughes shows monuments combining Christian and pagan imagery.
Combat Ships
S1, EP8 "The Smallest Ships"A look at the smallest ships of war and the major roles they've played over the centuries, including the 1776 gunboat built to stop a British invasion and the HA-19 sub.
Combat Ships
S1, EP10 "Secrets and Lies"A look at how the art of deception was used by naval forces in the first half of the 20th century; in 1939, the German raider Atlantis is equipped with fake funnels, while its sailors dressed as women pushing prams to fool Allied merchant ships.
Air Warriors
S2, EP2 "Prowler-Growler"Electronic warfare aircraft; the EA-6B Prowler; the EA-18G Growler.
Air Warriors
S6, EP4 "F-22 Raptor"The inside story of the ultimate stealth fighter, the F-22 Raptor, and its predecessors.
Aerial Australia
S1, EP2 "The Extreme Center"The hot, dry Extreme Center of Australia is home to landscapes like nowhere else on Earth, fearsome apex predators, a town built by opals, and Uluru, the cultural and spiritual heart of a nation.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP6 "Avalanche Warning"Scientists fly to save Anchorage from avalanche destruction. Border agents stop a potential insect invasion at Anchorage International. A bush pilot flies explosive cargo for a village festival, and the Coast Guard race to repai.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP5 "Flight to Glory"A trainee chopper pilot tackles a mid-air engine shutdown. Bush pilots face a high-altitude test on an aerial grocery run. The US Army in Alaska launch their biggest helicopter deployment ever, and an Arctic-sports phenom flies.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP4 "Shivering Timbers"A Coast Guard chopper pilot battles winds in a mission that will decide her flying career, a mountain construction project gets an express aerial delivery of materials in Alaska-style, and two bald eagles hitch a first-class rid.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP3 "The Flight Before Christmas"A major snowstorm disrupts Christmas travel in Anchorage; bush pilots aid an Arctic village after a fire; ice jeopardizes an airborne science mission; Customs agents combat a surge in illegal holiday food imports.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP4 "Shivering Timbers"A Coast Guard chopper pilot battles winds in a mission that will decide her flying career, a mountain construction project gets an express aerial delivery of materials in Alaska-style, and two bald eagles hitch a first-class rid.
Ice Airport Alaska
S5, EP1 "Flight of the Grizzly"An orphaned bear cub flies to a new home, bush pilots bring life-saving medical machinery to a remote village, record snowfall threatens to close down Anchorage Airport for Thanksgiving, and the US Army prepares for airborne war.
Ice Airport Alaska
S4, EP10 "Thawed Out"A fishing derby tests pilots; crews battle a rusty plane; an aviator must dream big or go broke.