Tring History programme guide

The financial crisis in the USA makes the Nazis look good. But in order to keep their new supporters they need to cleanse the party.

Year

2018

Rated 15+

15+

• Documentary
• biography
• history
• war

Unbelievable, untold missions from inside the world of espionage-told by the spies themselves. From real-life Jason Bournes to Bin Laden’s take-down, each episode delivers cliffhanger-driven stories revealing the deadly work of the CIA.

Year

2026

• Documentary
• documentary

Science and mythology - and how they are the same thing.

Year

2009

Rated 10+

10+

• Documentary
• history
• science fiction
• thriller

Science and mythology - and how they are the same thing.

Year

2009

Rated 10+

10+

• Documentary
• history
• science fiction
• thriller

With unique access and state-of-the-art technology, Bettany lifts the lid on the most remarkable treasures of civilisation to investigate the story of humanity. She examines household-name treasures and new finds from across the world.

Year

2021

• Documentary
• history

Follows intelligence experts who offer an look behind the CIA’s most secretive operations throughout history and the devices that made them possible.

Year

2020

Rated 18+

18+

• Documentary
• documentary

The legendary feud between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton unfolds through vivid reenactments in this gritty docudrama about the gunfight that defined an era.

Year

2024

Rated 15+

15+

• Documentary
• drama
• western

The legendary feud between Wyatt Earp and Ike Clanton unfolds through vivid reenactments in this gritty docudrama about the gunfight that defined an era.

Year

2024

Rated 15+

15+

• Documentary
• drama
• western

For most people, Vikings are known only as violent looters; we dig deeper and gain more insight into who the Vikings really were, and find out why they left Scandinavia to become pirates.

Original title

S1E1 - Vikingarnas sista resa

Year

2019

Rated 12+

12+

• Documentary
• history

An emotionally-charged, six-part documentary, exploring football’s extraordinary impact on the world. From the streets of Delhi to the fields of post-war Rwanda to the pitches of the Champions League, this globe-spanning series tells a unique story of the game and its power to unite countries, inspire generations and captivate billions.

Year

2019

Rated 15+

15+

• Documentary
• other sports

An investigation into hate, produced by Steven Spielberg and Alex Gibney. International criminal lawyer Patricia Sellers examines the causes of genocide.

Year

2019

Rated 12+

12+

• Documentary
• documentary

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama’s Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British Isles. What Schama does do, however, is tell the story in vivid and gripping narrative terms, free of the fustiness of traditional academe, personalising key historical events by examining the major characters at the centre of them. Not all historians would approve of the history depicted here as shaped principally by the actions of great men and women rather than by more abstract developments, but Schama’s way of telling it is a good deal more enthralling as a result. Schama successfully gives lie to the idea that the history of Britain has been moderate and temperate, passing down the generations as stately as a galleon, taking on board sensible ideas but steering clear of sillier, revolutionary ones. Nonsense. Schama retells British history the way it was--as bloody, convulsive, precarious, hot-blooded and several times within an inch of haring off onto an entirely different course. Schama seems almost to delight in the goriness of history. Themes returned to repeatedly include the wars between the Scots and the Irish and the Catholic/Protestant conflicts--only the Irish question remains unresolved by the new millennium. As Britain becomes a constitutional monarchy, Schama talks less of Kings and Queens but of poets and idea-makers like Orwell. Still, with his pungent, direct manner and against an evocative visual and aural backdrop, Schama makes history seem as though it happened yesterday, the bloodstains not yet dry.

Year

2000

• Documentary
• history

Is the 11,000-year-old heavily worked skull of a deer evidence of the earliest known religion, and is a Bronze Age disk covered in gold decoration the earliest representation of the cosmos?

Year

2021

Rated 12+

12+

• Documentary
• history

Was the heist an inside job? As law enforcement scrutinizes the museum’s security measures, a suspect emerges, but missteps hinder the investigation.

Year

2021

Rated 18+

18+

• Documentary
• crime
• history
• mystery

Host Conor Woodman travels to some of the world’s most popular cities in an effort to expose the darker side of tourism.

Year

2012

• Other
• adventure
• reality show

From the modern aircraft carrier to colossal Egyptian monuments, Ancient Impossible on H2 travels back in time to reveal the real story behind our world’s so-called modern technological achievements.

• Documentary
• history

Unbelievable, untold missions from inside the world of espionage-told by the spies themselves. From real-life Jason Bournes to Bin Laden’s take-down, each episode delivers cliffhanger-driven stories revealing the deadly work of the CIA.

Year

2026

• Documentary
• documentary

Science and mythology - and how they are the same thing.

Year

2009

Rated 10+

10+

• Documentary
• history
• science fiction
• thriller

With unique access and state-of-the-art technology, Bettany lifts the lid on the most remarkable treasures of civilisation to investigate the story of humanity. She examines household-name treasures and new finds from across the world.

• Documentary
• history

Solomon is a mythical figure of the Old Testament. Third king of Israel, he reigned for 40 years. He is said to be wise, but also extremely rich. Son of David, the shepherd who defeated Goliath, Solomon inherited his kingdom. His encounter with the Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous episodes of the Holy Book. But did Solomon really exist? For a long time, historians have considered the biblical story as a reliable source of the chronology of the kings of Israel. This certainty has been challenged for the last thirty years by archaeologists who use the latest technologies to better understand the reality of Solomon’s reign. Today, exceptional discoveries such as a tenth century B.C. temple built near Jerusalem or copper mines in the Negev desert show that the importance of Solomon’s reign has proven historical basis.

• Documentary

Rob examines bizarre markings that suggest a violent clash between prehistoric beasts. In California, he explores if a strange lake is a home to alien life.

Year

2017

Rated 10+

10+

• Series
• history