Bogre: The Great European Heresy - S01 E01 - Part 1
Director Fredo Valla begins his journey with a fleeting family memory of a word in the Occitan language - "Bogre".
History
Bogre: The Great European Heresy - S01 E02 - Part 2
The scholar Jean-Luis Gasc illustrates the rites and customs of the "Good Men", as the Cathars were called, and the persecution they suffered.
Bogre: La gran herejía europea - S01 E03 - Parte 3
Bogre narra un largo viaje tras las huellas de los cátaros y los bogomìli, herejes de la Edad Media que se extendieron desde los Balcanes hasta Europa occidental. Por eso, como dice el subtítulo de la película, la de los cátaros y bogomilos fue una gran herejía europea.
Bogre: The Great European Heresy - S01 E04 - Part 4
Venice, the ideal bridge between the West and the East, is a communication route between cultures and peoples.
Bogre: The Great European Heresy - S01 E05 - Part 5
Writer Maria Soresina opens the fifth chapter of the journey with Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
Bogre: The Great European Heresy - S01 E06 - Part 6
The Sarajevo fog welcomes the Bogre troupe for the last leg of the journey on the trail of the Cathars.
Cold War Secrets: Stealing the Atomic Bomb
On the 29th of August 1949, the USSR set off their first atomic bomb, just four years after the Americans. The speed with which they achieved this surprised the world. What nobody knew was that it was the result of espionage implemented at the heart of the United States. Stalin was able to obtain all the nuclear discoveries made by scientists who worked on the famous Manhattan Plan. At the centre of the operation was a very unusual female spy, Elizabeth Zaroubin.
Love, hate and propaganda: WWII EP 1
A survey of World War II and the pivotal role propaganda played in it.
Love, hate and propaganda: WWII EP 2
A survey of World War II and the pivotal role propaganda played in it.
Love, hate and propaganda: WWII EP 3
A survey of World War II and the pivotal role propaganda played in it.
Love, hate and propaganda: WWII EP 4
A survey of World War II and the pivotal role propaganda played in it.
United Kingdom, history seen from above - Episode 1
For nearly a million years people roamed the untamed lands between Europe and what is known today as the United Kingdom. But at the end of the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago, massive sea-rise flooded the plains north of the European continent and separated the British Isles from the rest of Europe.
United Kingdom, history seen from above - Episode 2
The first view that strikes a visitor approaching the British coast is that of the high White Cliffs of Dover, looking like a great natural fortress. Throughout history, this imposing vista has symbolized to invaders the frontier between a familiar world and unknown territory...
United Kingdom, history seen from above - Episode 3
Seen from the sky, the rural landscape of the United Kingdom is a rich mosaic of fields, heathland, mountains and forests. Walk through the Scottish Highlands or in the Fens of the county of Norfolk and the land appears naturally wild and rugged. In fact, the landscape has been shaped by centuries of political decisions and economic choices that left their mark on the country’s history.
United Kingdom, history seen from above - Episode 4
In the 19th century, England was at the very heart of innovation and was about to become the world's largest industrial power. In order to run steam engines, coal became an essential resource for the development of the economy and entire regions were transformed in just a few decades. South Wales became one of the country's main coal basins. Villages developed around the mines from where coal was delivered to England and the rest of the world.
The Other Man
It could have been a bloodbath of historic proportions. But instead, one man made the end of apartheid possible. In February 1990, President F.W. de Klerk lifted the ban on the African National Congress and ordered the release of Nelson Mandela. As the world celebrated, Mandela would go on to become South Africa’s first democratically elected president - with de Klerk as his Vice President. But de Klerk’s history is complicated.
Controversial History
Looking for truth through accounts and memories of the three main characters of WWII events that diverge between Jews, Latvians and Russians.
Black Sunday
A detailed report of the Holocaust in Romania. During World War II, two trains were loaded with Jews. Where they will be taken? To their deaths. Four survivors of Romanian Holocaust tell us what happened in Iasi during the Pogrom, a horror which took place on June 29, 1941. Over 13,000 people died in that single day, a day which has become known as Black Sunday in remembrance of those who lost their lives.
Teutonic Knights
In 19th century Germany, the Order of the Teutonic Knights had a romantic image and Prussia, their territory, had the allure of the land of heroes. So much so, that Hitler had been tempted to use their “image” as the symbol of national identity; their discipline and fighting spirit as the model for a conquerors’ mentality. But who really were the Teutonic Knights? This docu-drama sheds a new light on the fate of the order in the 13th and 14th century.