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- A series of documentaries exploring modern efforts to solve historic mysteries.
- Every air crash is a catastrophe, leaving behind bereaved families and ruined lives. But each air crash is also a lesson. From each disaster, we have learned how to build safer planes, evacuate passengers with greater speed and improve systems to avoid collisions. Lives have been saved because of what these tragedies have taught us.
- Against his country's orders, a Japanese diplomat issues visas to refugees, saving over 6,000 Jewish lives at the outbreak of World War II.
- As shown on TV, Nazi Collaborators explores the fascinating and often shocking tales of how individuals from all walks of life: the privileged; the political elite; ordinary working men; turned against their nations and races to fight alongside the Nazis during World War 2. Many did it for financial gain, others for the promise of elevated status. Some believed that siding with imperialist Germans offered the best chance of survival for their people, whilst others later claim they would be killed if they refused. From the Jewish leader who offered up his people as free labour, to the ex French Prime Minister who actively aided the Nazi hunt for the Resistance. And from the IRA-German plot to usurp control of Northern Ireland to the brutal killing squads of Lithuania, this ground-breaking series explores the complex motivations behind the controversial paths these collaborators chose. Uncovering incredible personal stories, this Special Edition Box Set features all 13 episodes across 4 DVD discs.
- Profiling French Prime Minister Pierre Laval who helped the Nazi's after England sunk and killed 1,300 french sailors and was later found guilty of treason and hung.
- Chaim Mordechaj Rumkowski, a Polish Jew who helped the Nazis, is profiled.
- Fatigue has left pilots drunk with exhaustion, causing fatal accidents and costing hundreds of people their lives, so why is the industry ignoring the issue?
- Profiles Dinko Sakic, the so-called "Beast of the Balkans", and the history behind the Jasenovac concentration camp (Jasenovac, Croatia), which, under Sakic's command, became known for brutality that shocked even visiting Nazi officials.
- AKA Good or Evil. Profiling Mohammad Amin Al-Husayni, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who enticed Bosnian Muslims to serve in the Waffen-SS.
- AKA Hitler's Executioner. The crimes of Viktor Arajs, leader of the Arajs Kommando unit, is profiled.
- Details of collaborators in Ukraine and Lithuania are examined.
- Failed politician Vidkun Quisling cuts a secret deal with the Nazis that he hopes will catapult him to power, only to find himself leader of Norway in name only after Germany invades the country in 1940.
- AKA The Devil's Due. Greeks who helped the Nazis.
- How the IRA collaborated with the Nazis is examined, which profiles individuals and organizations that knowingly or unwittingly aided the Third Reich.
- The 1935 Nuremburg Laws, the final solution, and soldiers who are Jewish that were allowed to fight for Germany are discussed.
- AKA Hitler or Death. The Belgian collaborator Léon Degrelle is profiled.
- Failed politician Anton Mussert's lust for power leads him to make a pact with the Nazis, going even so far as swearing his allegiance personally to Adolf Hitler. But Hilter turns the tables on Mussert, costing the Dutch people dearly.
- This episode explores the Finnish collaborators, and dispels with the myth that they were the "good collaborators" who were not involved in many war crimes. The Finns negotiated an alliance with one of the most evil regimes the world has ever seen, Nazi Germany, in order to fight the common enemy, communist Russia, but the alliance went far beyond the mere cobelligerency to full scale collaboration. The episode details war crimes committed by the Waffen SS Finish soldiers, and explores the depth of the Finish denial. The Soviet POVs received harsh treatment and died by the thousands in Finnish camps, for which Finnish collaborators were tried after the war. However, war time leader Mannerheim, once seen as Finnish Hitler, is revered in present day Finland and was even voted to be "greatest Finn" in 2004, while Risto Ryti, war time president of Finland imprisoned for Nazi collaboration by the western allies for 10 years after the war, won second place.
- Engineering error is an airline's worst nightmare. Hundreds of people killed, billions of dollars wasted because a plane was badly made. Every crash is a lesson to be heeded but sometimes lessons are ignored. Sometimes solutions lead to disasters engineers just don't foresee.
- "Maintenance Failure" 15 March 2012 Disasters included: British Airways Flight 5390, Southwest Airlines Flight 812, Japan Air Lines Flight 123.
- Pilot Error: Have airlines made flying more risky by trying to eliminate human error.
- The armies of Nazi Germany crossed the border with Austria, but when Hitler arrived in Vienna just 2 days later, the very first thing he did was to go to the Hofburg museum to lay claim to what appeared to be a simple Roman spear head. This spear head was something that Hitler had apparently coveted ever since he had first nurtured ambitions to become the ruler of a new German Reich.
- The Holy Grail, the most prized relic of Christianity has been shrouded in mystery for centuries. Said to be the cup used by Christ at the last supper it is believed by many to hold miraculous powers. For centuries Kings, knights and treasure hunters have sought it, but it has always remained elusive and out of reach of human hands.
- A rich and exotic Queen of Sheba brought King Solomon gifts of gold from the mystical land of Ophir. But where was Ophir? Where had all that gold come from? For 1000 of years, ancient Greeks, Renaissance adventurers, Victorian explorers, and modern day scientists have searched for the source of Solomon's gold. A mysterious place that would famously become known as King Solomon's Mines.
- This 50 minute documentary tells the story of three of these Christians and their expeditions which were full of danger and despair as they looked for Noah's Ark.
- In 1941 the Germans looted one of the Soviet Union's most important art works, called the Amber Room. An extraordinary series of C18 amber screens worth millions of pounds and considered, by many, the 8th wonder of the world. It was taken to the Baltic city of Konigsberg. 4 years later at the end of the war, it had vanished. So began one of the greatest treasure hunts of the twentieth century.
- The effort of actor Richard Knight to find the lost treasure of privateer William Kidd.
- Heinrich Himmler sent his SS solders to locate a treasure so valuable to Nazi ideology that it must be recovered at all costs. The item they are searching for is an ancient manuscript, a perfect copy of a book written nearly two thousand years before in Rome which the Nazis call the birth certificate for the German race. The book is known as the Germania; for the Nazis it is the "Book of Power".
- It's one of the most influential books ever written. It's said to have inspired early Freemasons, to provide the wisdom behind the Tarot and to have underpinned a string of 20th century esoteric cults. Yet after years of looking for it nobody has ever found the original text.
- The Honjo Masamune is perhaps the greatest Japanese sword ever made. Forged in the 13th century by the great sword smith Masamune it became the ceremonial sword of the ruling Tokugawa shoguns for 250 years. After their fall from power in 1868 the great sword continued to be passed down the generations into the 20th century, but in the aftermath of the Second World War it disappeared.
- Legend tells that somewhere in South America there is a great city of gold, El Dorado, a fabulously rich and sophisticated kingdom that was once home to thousands of people living deep in the Amazon jungle. To most people it was just a legend. But for British explorer, Colonel Percy Fawcett, it was real. Convinced he knew the location of this lost world, he spent years searching for it.
- In 1924, a young girl found an extraordinary object in the jungles of Central America. It was a beautiful skull from a single block of pure quartz crystal. All her life Anna Mitchell-Hedges claimed that her skull had telepathic powers.
- Fifteen years ago Michael Hesemann, a German historian, set out to establish the authenticity of one of the most important Christian relics ever found. It's called the Titulus Crucis, or Title of the Cross, a small piece of wood that, it's claimed, hung on the cross of Christ announcing his name and crime. It's displayed in a church in Rome. But is it real or a mediaeval fake?
- Fire on Board tells the dramatic story - It starts in 2007 on packed China Airlines flight 120, as a raging fire takes hold of the plane. If the passengers are going to escape in time it will depend on whether the lessons of the past have been learnt. One of those lessons comes from a disaster at Manchester airport in 1985, where 55 people perish in a massive uncontrollable fire.
- During the Boer War instructions were made by President Paul Kruger to hide the nation's wealth if the British looked like taking Pretoria. South African councilor Atholl Stark searches for the gold with the help of a Zulu family.
- Mel Fisher dedicates his entire life and savings to finding the Spanish galleon, Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Can his optimism prevail where the odds are against him?
- Heinrich Himmler believed that the Aryan race were descended from the Atlanteans. He claimed that the inhabitants of Atlantis fled to the Himalayas when their city sank. So a German expedition was sent to Tibet to prove this.
- Could a Jewish Treasure lost when the Temple was sacked be hidden in caves in Jordan? John Marco Allegro, a maverick young scholar was convinced it was. It began with the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in 1946.
- Did the Garden of Eden actually exist? Archaeologist Juris Zarins has set out to prove that it did. Zarins uses the biblical description that it is the source of four major rivers to help him. But two of them have not been found.
- Legend says that 19th century Shoguns hid gold coins worth 10 trillion Yen on Mount Akagi to keep them from falling into the hands of the incoming Meji government. Three generations of one family have searched for the coins.
- Forensic expert Philippe Charlier tries to uncover the truth behind the remains found in a Paris pharmacy in 1867, which the Church have accepted are the relics of Saint Joan of Arc. Is there any evidence to prove they are?
- Archaeologists have attempted to pinpoint the location of the Labyrinth, a maze like structure said to have housed the Minotaur. English archaeologist Arthur Evans became convinced it was on Crete when he excavated Knossos.