After an Allied plane carrying a top-secret WWII bombing plan is shot down behind enemy lines, a wounded survivor hides on a Japanese-occupied island while military intelligence races to recover the documents before they doom the entire operation.
The new documentary event will provide an epic portrait of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, unpacking how his own fight with polio prepared him for the challenges of leading the United States through the Great Depression and World War II. Based upon Goodwin's New York Times bestseller, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, viewers will experience a most harrowing, yet heroic time in history when through grit, commitment and shared sacrifice FDR was the right man at the right time to lead the U.S. and the allied nations, projecting confidence in himself and America.
An epic chronicle of the dysfunctional Plantagenet family from the accession of the young Henry to the death of Richard, last of the Plantagenets. The vacillations of the priestly Henry lead to ungentlemanly behaviour, civil war, treason, murder, regicide, fratricide, and the relentless pursuit of power so characteristic of the Renaissance.
A revealing series of interviews between renowned filmmaker Oliver Stone and Vladimir Putin in which the Russian President speaks candidly on the US Election, Trump, Syria, Snowden and more.
The series interspersed the most significant historical events of the southern country with the comings and goings of a family living in the suburbs of Buenos Aires.
The show documents each of the Presidents in the union, starting with George Washington, following a chronological order up until George W. Bush. Each President's segment begins with the narrator giving a brief dossier about each one, from their political affiliation, family, and notable traits. The show then highlights the history behind each presidency, linking each one to the following.
A Horseman Riding By is a 13-part BBC television serial produced by Ken Riddington, and adapted by Arden Winch, Alexander Baron, and John Wiles from R.F. Delderfield's 1966-68 historical novel series of the same name.
Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's scrapyard business. He soon becomes a much-respected 'Squire' determined to treat all his tenant farmers fairly, unlike his predecessor.
In 1943, after surviving a massacre by Japanese forces, Yang Tianzhu, a hunter joins the Eighth Route Army to seek justice. As the enemy builds a secret chemical weapons base, he and his comrades fight to expose and destroy the operation, playing a key role in the liberation of their town.
In September 1939, Colette and Ernest are welcomed by their maternal grandparents in a fictional village named Grangeville, near Dieppe in Normandy. The short vacation becomes semi-permanent when their father goes off to fight, following the mobilization of France to fight the invading German Army, and the poor health of their mother, required to leave to be treated for tuberculosis in a sanatorium in Switzerland. The two little Parisians discover life in the countryside during wartime, including occupation, Resistance, deprivation, but also life with friends.
During the Chinese Civil War, Du Xiumei leads a Red Army guerrilla group against Nationalist forces in the Silver River region. Amidst betrayal and mysterious deaths, local figure Pi Degui, with hidden loyalties, risks everything to aid the revolution and protect his comrades.
CCTV-10 Lecture Room series: Pin San Guo (品三国; Analysis of the Three Kingdoms). "Yi Zhongtian's Analysis of the Three Kingdoms" is a CCTV-10 historical broadcast program and one of the "Hundred Forums" series. The main speaker, Yi Zhongtian, restored the real Cao Cao, defended Zhou Yu's false accusations, spoke up about Zhuge Liang, and re-evaluated Sima Yi. When talking about the world, there are only three points of gossip. Discuss the merits and demerits carefully, and summarize the gains and losses of successes and failures. Professor Yi Zhongtian of Xiamen University will use stories to tell characters, characters to tell history, history to tell culture, and culture to tell human nature. Discuss the major events of the Three Kingdoms and carefully analyze the success and failure of the heroes. Professor Yi Zhongtian will explain it from a civilian perspective.
Snapphanar is a Swedish miniseries which aired in three parts on Sveriges Television during Christmas 2006, directed by Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein. The historical drama is about the Snapphane peasant rebel movement which fought against the Swedish rule of Scania in the 17th century. The "Snapphanar" was a rebellion people, who fought secretly for Denmark during 1660-1700.
The miniseries were criticised by historians due to a perceived lack of historical accuracy. The Scanian nationalist attitudes portrayed in the series did not exist in the 17th century, and the term snapphane, which is used for self-identification in the series, was in fact a derogatory term used by Swedes.