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The Eisenhower Briefing Document, advising President-elect Dwight Eisenhower about top-secret scientists and government officials tasked with investigating reports of UFOs

Hindu god Shiva, the great destroyer. This programme contemplates whether the deity could have been the leader of an extraterrestrial race

The Heraklion Operation, carried out in June 1942 when Major Georges Bergé's team landed in Crete intending to destroy Luftwaffe planes at Heraklion airfield

Operation Frankton, of December 1942, which involved Royal Marines placing limpet mines on German ships in Bordeaux Harbour

The efforts of Norwegian resistance fighters to return to their invaded homeland to carry out a daring mission to raid and destroy a hydroelectric plant

Dan Jones explores the turbulent history of six of Britain's most famous castles, his journey commencing with a visit to Edinburgh Castle

Hugh Dennis and a team of expert archaeologists excavate back gardens around Britain, beginning in the quiet suburban streets of Benwell in Newcastle-upon-Tyne

Alice Roberts and the team examine a Roman fort on Hadrian's Wall, evidence of early writing by the Picts in Scotland, and a 3,000-year-old Bronze Age coffin

To enter space, humans require a space suit. Are the aliens that are said to have visited Earth any different, or are they more akin to artificial drones?

In the spring of 1952, reports of UFO sightings rose significantly. Former US Air Officials attempt to shed light on the possible causes

A look at the world's hottest UFO zones, where physical and paranormal phenomena, unidentified objects and aliens are reported with alarming frequency

Investigating evidence that suggests the world's governments could be on the verge of announcing everything they know about UFOs

Operation Husky, a massive amphibious invasion of the island of Sicily carried out by Allied Forces in July 1943

The events of December 1941 when under cover of a fierce naval bombardment, a taskforce of elite British commandos sailed toward the Norwegian town of South Vaagso

Tony Robinson hikes up from Lyme Regis in Dorset to the Somerset Levels telling the story of the 1685 Monmouth Rebellion, an attempt to overthrow James II

Hugh Dennis and the archaeologists set out to uncover evidence of a secret military base on the clifftops of South Shields

Examining apocalyptic prophecies and their plausibility throughout history

Tony Harris and his team of experts probe reports of a serpent-like creature caught on camera. Plus, possible signs the Nazis colonised the South Pole

The mysterious death of the Duke of Kent in a 1942 plane crash, which has led to accusations of the Royal family erasing him from history

The Eisenhower Briefing Document, advising President-elect Dwight Eisenhower about top-secret scientists and government officials tasked with investigating reports of UFOs

Hindu god Shiva, the great destroyer. This programme contemplates whether the deity could have been the leader of an extraterrestrial race

More unsettling stories, from a Chinese curse that has gained a reputation for being more than just a myth to the discovery of human remains in a Founding Father's basement

The veteran actor explores the golden age of piracy, when thousands of larger-than-life buccaneers terrorised the high seas and became legends

Musketoon Operation, a daring, commando raid on a German-held electricity generating station at Glomfjord in Norway, carried out by British and Norwegian commandos in 1942

Garth Barnard investigates the Baker's Creek aviation disaster in Australia in 1943, when 40 American servicemen were killed when their B-17 bomber aircraft crashed

True stories of the conflict, recalling how after surviving the Battle of the Bulge, infantryman Rockie Blunt pushed towards the Rhine towards the end of the war