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Timeline - World History Documentaries

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Welcome to Timeline - the home of world history. Every week we'll be bringing you one-off documentaries and series from the world's top broadcasters, including the BBC, Channel 4, Discovery and PBS. We'll be exploring the mysteries of ancient Egypt, shedding light on the dark ages of medieval Europe and examining the First and Second World Wars. Subscribe so you don't miss out.Do you love uncovering the past, exploring historic sites, and venturing to distant lands? Join History Hit today and stream hundreds of exclusive documentaries, with new releases every week. Plus, enjoy ad-free access to our podcast network for...

Episodes

• The Man Who Tried To Warn America About 9/11

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:00:38

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• Medieval Construction: How Communities Built Castles In The Middle Ages

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:06:07

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• How The Vietnam Wives Took On The US Government | Among The Missing | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 53:05

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• The Search For The Roman's First British Fort | Time Team | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:01

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• Pearl Harbor To Okinawa: The Most Horrific Battles Of WW2 | Battles Won And Lost

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:26

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• The Return Of Charles II From Exile | Game Of Kings | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 52:00

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• Inside Moscow’s Secret Vaults: The Truth Behind Russia's Most Haunting Artifacts

  Nov 14, 2026 · 51:31

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• How Did This 3,000-Year-Old Dominating Civilization Suddenly Collapse?

  Nov 14, 2026 · 55:17

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• How To Build A Medieval Castle From Scratch

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:07:05

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• Archeologists Investigate Inside The Lost Tombs Of Ancient Maya

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:41:50

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• English Civil War: The Turbulent Reign Of Charles I | Game Of Kings

  Nov 14, 2026 · 51:44

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• The Other Side Of WWI: The Men Who Were Shot At Dawn | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:03:07

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• Is Prince Charles The Real Black Sheep Of The Royal Family?

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:48

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• The Final Gruesome Days Of Louis XIV's Reign, As It Happened

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:00:18

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• The Destruction Of Carthage: Why Ancient Rome Feared Their Great Rival | Carthage | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 56:36

  Carthage was Rome's equal, rival and almost her conqueror. In 146 BC Roman general Scipio destroyed the city of Carthage so painstakingly and utterly that not a single building…

• A Look Inside A UK Cold War Test Centre | Drones In Forbidden Zones

  Nov 14, 2026 · 6:12

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• The Real Story Behind Britain's Offshore Tax Scandal | Britain's Second Empire | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:24:35

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• The US Naval Dominance At The Battle Of Midway | Battles Won And Lost | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:47

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• The Poet Who Became A Murderer

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:43

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• 1776: The Uncensored Story of The American Revolution

  Nov 14, 2026 · 2:20:16

  Forget what you learned in school. Or from Hamilton. The American revolution was bigger and bloodier than you ever thought.For the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of…

• The Bloody Reign of The Stuarts | Game of Kings | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 51:40

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• The Endurance: Shackleton’s Legendary Antarctic Expedition

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:45:18

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• The Oldest Living Thing In The World: The Mysterious Methuselah Tree | Oldest Tree | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 58:24

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• The Gospels: Can We Trust Ancient Witnesses?

  Nov 14, 2026 · 55:45

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• Does This 400-Year-Old Map Lead To A Billion Dollar Treasure?

  Nov 14, 2026 · 58:09

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• Westminster Abbey: Uncovering Henry III's Sacristy | Time Team

  Nov 14, 2026 · 56:07

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• Uncensored Footage From The My Lai Massacre: Vietnam War's Darkest Day

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:10:40

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• An Example of Anti-Western Propaganda | North Korean Government Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:44:10

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• El Triunfante: The Biggest Shipwreck Ever Discovered In Spain | Triunfante | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 59:10

  What's the process of retrieving a sunken ship and preparing it for display in a museum? How do archaeologists work underwater? One of the biggest wrecks ever discovered in Spain…

• Archaeologists Hunt For Sunken Treasure Within WW2 Shipwrecks

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:00:18

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• Who Were The Australian Cold War Spies? | Person of Interest | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:00:29

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• Shirley Chisholm: First African American Congresswoman | Black History Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 24:27

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• The Story Of Julius Caesar's Murder | Tony Robinson's Romans: Julius Caesar Pt 2 | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 55:59

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• How The Lancaster Bomber Turned The Tide Of WW2 For Britain | Lancaster At War | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 54:52

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• Guadalcanal: America's Pacific Push That Turned WW2 Around | Battles Won And Lost

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:28

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• When A Soviet Mine Layer Collided With A U-Boat | Hunt For U-479 (3/3) | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:04:05

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• The Bloody Truth Behind America's Ancient Anasazi | Native American Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 56:08

  Were the native Americans secret cannibals? New discoveries reveal that the Anasazi tribe killed and ate their victims.Investigations further afield have found that there may…

• Archeologists Uncover New Evidence Of Pompeii's Last Hours

  Nov 14, 2026 · 56:20

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• Was This Sphinx Carved Out By A Lost Ancient Civilization?

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:01:33

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• Did Princess Diana Predict Her Own Death? | Diana: The Night She Died | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:28

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• 250 Years Later: Why Everything You Learned About the American Revolution is Wrong

  Nov 14, 2026 · 2:20:15

  Forget what you learned in school. Or from Hamilton. The American revolution was bigger and bloodier than you ever thought.For the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of…

• How The Red Army Liberated Holocaust Victims From Terrifying Experiments | Destruction | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 58:34

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• When The Workers Fought Back: Peterloo Massacre Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:22:20

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• The Rise And Fall Of Adolf Hitler: A Complete Story

  Nov 14, 2026 · 2:20:34

  Discover the complete history of Nazi Germany, from the ashes of WW1 to the catastrophic collapse of the Third Reich in 1945. This full-length documentary explores how Adolf…

• How Columbanus United A Bitterly Divided Europe

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:07:03

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• The Daring Undercover Spy Missions In Occupied France | A Most Secret Service | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 56:54

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• The Island Fortress Of An Ancient King | Time Team | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 58:15

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• The Elite Family Cursed By King Tut | Tutankhamun's Tomb (Ancient Egypt Documentary) | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:43

  Defying the curse that has haunted their family for three generations, a member of the Carnarvon family returns to the site of Tutankhamun's tomb for the first time in 75 years.…

• The Da Vinci Code Hoax: What Really Happened At Renne-Le-Château?

  Nov 14, 2026 · 58:14

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• How Versailles Became The Epicentre Of 18th Century Food | Let's Cook History

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:46

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• The Complete History Of The Atomic Bomb: Conception, War And Legacy

  Nov 14, 2026 · 53:14

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• Libby Prison Escape: The Most Audacious Prison Break Of The American Civil War

  Nov 14, 2026 · 40:17

  Colonel Thomas Rose is one of more than 1000 Union officers held in Richmond Virginia’s notorious Libby Prison. It’s an inescapable fortress known for its stark white walls, its…

• The Horrific Truth Behind Nazi Doctor's Evil Experiments| Destruction | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:24:09

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• The Mystery Of The Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon Helmet | King Arthur's Britain | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 56:49

  In the last programme of the series Francis focuses his attention on the Anglo-Saxon invasion.Sheep-farming archaeologist, Francis Pryor, presents a brand new historical series…

• The Plague That Nearly Destroyed London | The Great Plague | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:25:20

  The Great Plague of 1665 killed 100,000 Londoners – one in three of the people living in the city. While kept diaries have provided terrifying testaments to the horrors of that…

• Rare Uncensored Footage From The Battle Of Okinawa

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:00:41

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• Journey To The End Of The Roman Empire | Sahara Desert Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 58:37

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• Inside Blenheim Palace and Windsor Castle: Britain's Best Preserved Palaces

  Nov 14, 2026 · 47:21

  Step inside two of Europe’s most magnificent monuments to power, pageantry, and privilege: Blenheim Palace and Windsor Castle. In this premium documentary, we take you on an…

• Secrets Of The National Maritime Museum: The Dark Truth Behind Britain's Navy

  Nov 14, 2026 · 51:36

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• Dr. Daniel Hale Williams First Black Heart Surgeon In America

  Nov 14, 2026 · 50:02

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• The Real Tom Thumb: PT Barnum's Smallest Superstar? | Greatest Showman Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 53:20

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• The Real Legacy Of The Roman Invasion In Britain | King Arthur's Britain | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:07

  Francis Pryor examines the history of Britain near the end of the Roman occupation. The first instalment focuses on Britain under Roman rule, revealing a much greater degree of…

• Veil Of Veronica: The Search For The True Face Of God

  Nov 14, 2026 · 58:27

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• Why Did Ancient Egypt Eventually Fall?

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:07:07

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• Queen Victoria's Smallest Friend: The Real Tom Thumb | Greatest Showman Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 53:46

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• Inside Hitler's Eastern Headquarter: The Wolf's Lair

  Nov 14, 2026 · 51:45

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• Deciding The War | Battles Won and Lost | Timeline

  Nov 14, 2026 · 57:28

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• Inside The Secret German-Jewish WW2 Reparations

  Nov 14, 2026 · 1:19:35

  In the aftermath of the Holocaust, the destruction and plight of survivors prompts the unthinkable - German and Jewish leaders meet in secret to negotiate the first reparations…

• The Last Outpost Of The Roman Empire | Time Team | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 58:07

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• Julius Caesar's Rise To The Republic | Tony Robinson's Romans | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 56:20

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• Rare Archival Footage From Nazi Germany

  Nov 13, 2026 · 57:12

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• In Vivo: The Horrific Experiments Performed By Josef Mengele | Destruction (Nazi Doctors) | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:01:21

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• The Arrest Of Anne Boleyn: Was She Really Guilty Of Treason, Adultery and Incest?

  Nov 13, 2026 · 52:37

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• From Poverty To Purpose: The Ben Carson Story | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 24:32

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• Cluny Abbey: The Lost Holy City Of The Middle Ages

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:00:31

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• Operation Barbarossa: Hitler's Gamble In The Soviet Union

  Nov 13, 2026 · 57:29

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• Why Columbus Didn't 'Discover' America | Before Columbus | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 57:37

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• The Crucial Battles That Ended WW2 | Battles Won and Lost | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 57:28

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• The Ancient Army Of 50,000 Men That Vanished | King Cambyses II | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 56:56

  While escaping the Egyptians 2,500 years ago, the Persian King Cambyses led his army into the desert and disappeared forever. Despite efforts in the 1930s to discover what…

• The Most Powerful Women In The Ottoman Empire | Hidden World Of The Harem | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:43:53

  Embark on a journey to explore the hidden world of the Harem, a world that has long been shrouded by mystery and erotic fantasies. In the 16th century the Turkish city of…

• Inside Myanmar's Untouched Ancient Temples

  Nov 13, 2026 · 57:54

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• Inside The Mind Of Karl Marx: Rare Documents And Forgotten Writings

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:00:25

  Two centuries after his birth, Karl Marx remains one of history’s most influential and polarizing figures. From his early exile in London to the publication of Das Kapital, Marx…

• The Patagonian Bones (Welsh Settlers Documentary) Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:02:33

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• The Lost Dutch Treasure Ships Off The Coast Of Australia | Search For Sunken Treasure | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 59:04

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• Inside NASA: The Saturn V Rocket Story | Space Race Documentary | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:00:24

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• Brancaster | Time Team (Roman Documentary) | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 55:02

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• The Artefacts That Prove The Dark Ages Weren't Actually So Dark

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:08:18

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• The British Agent Who Became A KGB Spy | Comrade Philby | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:02:08

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• The Complex Legacy Of Alexander The Great: Conquering The Known World In 12 Years

  Nov 13, 2026 · 58:42

  Discover the epic rise and sudden fall of history's ultimate military mastermind: Alexander the Great. From the brutal assassination of his father, King Philip II, to…

• A Village Affair | Time Team (Archeology Documentary) | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 54:41

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• Why Britain's Dark Ages Remain Shrouded In Mystery | King Arthur's Britain | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 56:59

  Francis Pryor examines the relics of the Dark Ages to build a fuller picture of this much-maligned era. Popular belief has always held that the departure of the Romans led to…

• Caesar’s Nightmare: An Ambush in the Forest | Archeology (Roman Documentary) | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 29:11

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• Is The Medieval Castle An Architectural Masterpiece?

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:07:04

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• Is This Australian Man The Real King Of England? | Britain's Real Monarch | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 56:10

  Tony Robinson unearths new evidence that strongly suggests that Richard's brother, King Edward IV was illegitimate.If that were the case, the entire royal bloodline that traces…

• King Alfred The Great On The Run From The Vikings | Time Team | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 58:51

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• The Dark Secrets Behind The Metropolitan Museum Of Art's Most Famous Exhibits

  Nov 13, 2026 · 54:45

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• Was Emperor Caligula Really A Psychopath? | Ancient Rome with Mary Beard | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 1:07:11

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• Battle Of Britain: The 13-Hour Dogfight That Denied Luftwaffe Air Superiority | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 56:49

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• Inside The Defining Minds Of The Enlightenment Era That Forged The Western World

  Nov 13, 2026 · 57:38

  From Galileo’s clash with the Inquisition to Immanuel Kant’s revolution of reason, this comprehensive documentary explores the greatest minds of the Enlightenment. Discover how…

• Athens, Daughter Of Egypt? | Archeology (Ancient Greece Documentary) | Timeline

  Nov 13, 2026 · 29:02

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