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Experts investigate whether ancient tales of beings with super-human powers could be inspired by extra-terrestrials who came to Earth in the past.

Inventor Nikola Tesla claimed to have direct communication with beings on other planets. Could this genius scientist have been a human 'receiver'.

We examine the robot that defused bombs both on foreign battlefields and British streets, and an astonishing Gulf War minelayer.

Machines that would have been used had a stand-off resulted in all-out nuclear war, from the smallest tactical nuke to an experimental flying jeep.

A newly discovered town in Devon turns history on its head and there's a shocking find by the Thames - almost 100 baby skeletons.

Dr Alice Roberts discovers what Britain was like before the Romans as she examines fascinating finds from the Bronze and Iron Ages.

Andy embarks on a mission to unearth the Cornish sites of King Arthur, before magnet fishing for Excalibur and visiting the grave of a legendary witch.

Andy is back in Cornwall searching for legends, meeting a real-life mermaid and fishing for Cornwall's infamous sea serpent Morgawr.

Experts investigate whether ancient tales of beings with super-human powers could be inspired by extra-terrestrials who came to Earth in the past.

Inventor Nikola Tesla claimed to have direct communication with beings on other planets. Could this genius scientist have been a human 'receiver'.

With Allied victories and the liberation of Paris following D-Day, Vera is in a race against time to locate her missing agents.

The Quest for the Holy Grail: As the Third Reich rises to power, Himmler fixates on the Holy Grail as his and the Nazis' desperation to capture this ancient relic intensifies.

It's July 10, 1943 and the Allied Forces have evicted the Axis Powers from North Africa and can finally begin the Italian Campaign.

Discover the myth of ancient Greece's most feared god. Hades takes us behind the veil of the ancient Greek belief in life after death with chilling tales.

Ancient Greece's most powerful god wages an epic struggle against his father for control of the universe. It's the ultimate clash in what is mythology's greatest showdown.

While the allies aim to end Hitler's domination of Western Europe, British troops are secretly being trained for an enormous, amphibious operation. (1 of.

Rewind to the US Army's largest and bloodiest conflict of World War II: The Battle of the Bulge. Venture through the battle in newly colourised footage.

Experts investigate whether ancient tales of beings with super-human powers could be inspired by extra-terrestrials who came to Earth in the past.