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Gods and Kings rule over ancient Egypt. They are omnipresent, leading the country into deep crises and to unimagined greatness. Episode 2 of the documentary series tells their story. Around 5000 years ago, the Egyptians created the first state in history. A great empire on the Nile, which could only be held together by the just rule of the pharaoh and the belief in a common world of gods. Researchers list 31 pharaonic dynasties and over 1500 gods and goddesses. For 3,000 years, they ensured consistency so that the people on the Nile would prosper. Until the empire perished with Cleopatra, the last pharaoh. Yet, Ancient Egypt leaves behind much more than magnificent temples and impressive pyramids. Some inventions or ideas are cornerstones of state and society even today. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every

In Underworld: Belize, the team are on a quest to discover why the Maya Civilisation disappeared around 900 AD. Underground, in the spectacular cave of Actun Tunichil Muknal (ATM), they uncover a crystallised skeleton, the remains of human sacrifice from 1,100 years ago. In a land with no surface rivers the Maya relied on its underworld for fresh water, accessed via flooded sinkholes. Joining them is Professor Holley Moyes, whose investigations reveal a great megadrought in Central America between 700-900 AD that caused the Maya to venture further and further underground to make human sacrifices to their gods as they prayed for rains that would never come. A 3D scan of Las Cuevas reveals exactly how they had modified this cave as a pilgrimage site, with seating and a stage - a final act of desperation as their society collapsed. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches

The Nile is Egypt’s lifeline. Its water transforms parched soils into productive farmland. The first houses and settlements are built from its mud. Yet, how did it all begin? From 5000 BC, desert nomads began to settle in the Nile Valley. Instead of wandering around as hunter-gatherers, they now practice agriculture and animal husbandry. The foundations for Egyptian civilization. As early as the 1st Dynasty, the land along the Nile is divided into smaller administrative units. But Egyptian administration would not have worked without another groundbreaking invention - writing - in the form of elaborately painted hieroglyphics. Yet, the pride and joy of the Egyptians is the Nile. It’s the country's most important trade route. Without this river, one of the most fascinating advanced civilizations in history would never have existed. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and

Deep in the Transylvanian forests, an ancient Bear Cult has survived. Here, Europe’s greatest land predator is a symbol of rebirth in the New Year. Modern Romania has not lost its fascination with bears. It peaked under Ceausescu, in a breeding programme designed to satisfy the dictator’s hunting obsession. His regime is now history, but the bears are still there; and with ever-increasing numbers, conflict is unavoidable. Romania has more bears than any other European country: over 6,000! We follow a female bear and her three cubs as they move from the mountains to become “problem bears” in the town. Three Romanians show, in their different ways, the country’s ambivalent attitude to bears. Follow shepherd Petre Clem, activist Laura Niculescu and the ranger Bogdan Sulica. They all have their own solutions to the same problem. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads

With over 12,000 known caves, Slovenia has a wealth of stories from the underworld. Underworld: Slovenia is a thrilling adventure into one of the most significant ice caves in Europe. A team of expert cavers descend into Paradana, Slovenia’s largest ice cave. Using two different types of scanning technology, they measure the volume of ice, providing a baseline for scientists to measure the effects of climate change. Alongside Paradana, the film explores Slovenia’s other mysterious and varied caves. Postojnska Jama is home to a rare species of blind cave salamander. Križna Jama, a near-pristine underground system of unparalleled beauty, contains the perfectly preserved bones of cave bears - a now extinct giant that once roamed across Europe. Together, these remarkable underworlds secure Slovenia’s position as a capital of caving. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every

His speeches leave Italy bewitched. But behind all Benito Mussolini’s bluster and posturing lies a dark heart of violence and brutality. This is the story of Il Duce, the Boss and how his love of Italy inspires an epic rise to power…but whose devotion to inflicting fear ultimately brings his country to its knees. He beats and rapes women, orders his fascist black shirts to beat and kill his political opponents, yet his loved at home and admired abroad. Churchill calls him a genius whilst President Roosevelt says he is ‘deeply impressed by him’. He famously reduces unemployment and makes the trains run on time. But he then ruthlessly drops mustard gas on Libya and Ethiopia, becomes enthralled by Adolf Hitler and his ideas and drags his country into a war they are hopelessly unprepared for - and becomes complicit in the Holocaust. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to

This is the story Saddam Hussein, a man thought to be more sadistic than Hitler, and how he rules Iraq with an utter contempt for humanity for 23 years. This historical documentary looks at how the extreme pleasure he derives from limitless cruelty plays a significant part in his transformation from a violent young street thug to one of the most notorious dictators in the Middle East. How with patience throughout the 1970s he skilfully manoeuvres himself into power and the horrifically violent acts he commits in order to keep his iron grip on the nation – including genocide. And how his megalomania reaches such epic heights he believes he can get away with anything, bringing him into direct conflict with almost the entire world. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week! The following assets

Ivan IV became Russia's first tsar and one of the most feared rulers in European history. Born in Moscow in 1530, Ivan survived a traumatic childhood before transforming Russia through reform, conquest and absolute rule. His capture of Kazan on October 2, 1552 helped lay the foundations of the Russian Empire, but after the death of his wife Anastasia in 1560, suspicion and violence increasingly consumed his reign. From 1565 to 1572, his feared Oprichniki unleashed a campaign of confiscation and terror, culminating in the devastation of Novgorod in 1570. Historians and a criminal profiler examine the mind and legacy of Ivan the Terrible, from his struggle for Baltic access and the killing of his own son to the propaganda that shaped his reputation. The documentary also reveals why Stalin later embraced Ivan as a model of centralized power, raising a provocative question: was Ivan IV a mad tyrant, or a ruthless modernizer whose ambitions were destroyed by his own brutality? -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering

Gibraltar has one of the highest concentrations of caves in the world, and more man-made tunnels than roads. In Underworld: Gibraltar, the team head to the monolithic rock on the edge of the Mediterranean to learn more about its underground labyrinth. Looking out to sea at Gorham’s Cave, thousands of years of history have been uncovered, from Neanderthal skulls to Ancient Greek offerings, with more secrets waiting to be revealed. Was this the last outpost of Neanderthals in Europe? Did Gorham’s Cave hold significance to the Greeks, being at the edge of their known world? Deep inside the rock, the team examines a Silent Pool which may hold never before seen creatures waiting to be discovered, as well as a network of strategic war tunnels carved into the limestone, including a secret WWII bunker long forgotten by the outside world. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches

The Three Pyramids of Giza, world-famous archaeological marvels. However, it is said there was a fourth pyramid, which was even more impressive. The tomb of the pharaoh Djedefre. So what is the story behind this mysterious pharaoh and his eternal tomb? And why has his pyramid disappeared? Egyptologist Chris Naunton sets out to find the enigmatic structure and unravel the mystery of the pharaoh who built it. Djedefre is an Ancient Egyptian king belonging to the Fourth Dynasty. He is a son and heir to the throne of Cheops. Cheops built the Great Pyramid of Giza, one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. There is no fourth pyramid on the plateau of Giza. But not far away, around 10 km to the north in Abu Rawash, archaeologists discover a pyramid frustum. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length

According to biblical tradition, there were 12 tribes of Israel. The traces belonging to ten of them, however, had already disappeared by the early days of Israeli civilization. But it seems impossible that such a large number of people left no traces behind. Are the descendants of the lost tribes of Israel still living today? Archaeological findings confirm the historical origins of the myth - in the 8th century BC, when large parts of what is now Israel were conquered by the Assyrians. Where were the subjects taken? The path they took might have brought them to the most remote corners of the world. Experts are following their tracks - from the ""Holy Land"" all the way to South Africa and the Middle East. With the help of state-of-the-art technology, researchers are trying to unravel the millennia-old mystery. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the

Miles of caves snake beneath Great Britain’s landscape, each with a unique story to tell. In Underworld: Britain, the team heads inside the deepest shaft ever discovered in Britain: Titan. They hope that a comprehensive 3D scan will reveal the shaft’s true size for the first time, as well as revealing secrets about how it formed millions of years ago. But will its vast size prove to be too much of a challenge for the scanning team? And it’s not just Titan that has secrets to share. Throughout the country, caves help unlock the secrets of our ancestors. From the discovery of the earliest human skeleton in Britain in Cheddar, to 17th Century “Witches’ Marks” at Creswell Crags, modern-day cave dwellers at Kinver Edge, and the very first cave divers at Wookey Hole the team explore the importance of caves throughout British history. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to

Hideki Tojo is the Prime Minister of Japan 1941 - 44. An army bureaucrat, he rises as an efficient administrator with a sharp legal mind. His intense loyalty to the Emperor allows him to break into national politics in 1940. After he is made Prime Minister in 1941, he gives the order to bomb Pearl Harbour. This is followed by a swift invasion of South East Asia in a succession of very successful military campaigns where the Japanese army inflict extreme atrocities on civilians and prisoners of war. Tojo approves many further extreme acts of brutality, with no battlefield experience he runs a disastrous campaign in which he loses nearly a third of his men. With the fall of the island of Saipan in 1944, his career is finished. After the US conquest of Japan, he attempts but fails to commit suicide. He is hanged for war crimes in 1948. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown

The vicious tyrant Francois ‘Papa Doc” Duvalier ruthlessly dominated Haiti using violence and Voodoo. Rising from a humble country doctor, he made himself into a figure so terrifying to his people that many believed he had links with the Voodoo deity Baron Samedi, guardian of the graveyard. So complete was his control that people feared even to think about resisting him. He claimed to have caused the death of President John F Kennedy, and even that he could speak to the dead. His private militia, the notorious Ton Ton Macoutes, became a byword for brutality, torturing and killing thousands of Haitians. To maintain his power he made school children watch public executions, and massacred the families of anyone he suspected of challenging his power. He looted his country, stealing millions from some of the poorest people on earth. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the

Chickens are the most common birds on the planet. 25 billion of them provide us with eggs and meat. It’s easy to forget they have wild ancestors surviving all over earth. But the chicken family game birds or Galliformes, include some of the most spectacular birds on the planet! From the pheasants of Europe, a common sight and sound across the countryside, to the Satyr Tragopan in the Himalayan forests of Nepal and Alaskan Ptarmigan that change colour with the seasons. Life at the bottom of the food chain can be hard but, far from being ‘bird-brained’, Galliformes guys and gals are true survivors; highly intelligent, social and complex creatures, capable of showing empathy and forming alliances. With much more to offer than drumsticks, this feathered family has it all - feisty featherweights, lusty lovebirds and plucky parents! -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the

The Chinese Chairman Mao Zedong once declared the death of 300 million of his own people would be a price worth paying. Supreme Leader of China for almost 3 decades, his merciless policies made him one of the most ruthless tyrants of the 20th Century. A communist leader obsessed by power and violence; a sadist intoxicated by others’ pain; and a dictator convinced that politics had to be violent. He presided over the deaths of more people than Hitler and Stalin combined. Those who dared oppose him paid the price in the most cruel way imaginable. China’s needless deaths were so great in number, the total may never be known. This is the story of a sadistic autocrat addicted to brutality, from his communist roots, through his reign of cruelty and revenge, to a position of authority so great, his personality cult remains to this day. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of

Throughout the course of history, there have been many viciously cruel dictators, but few as deranged as Muammar Gaddafi, the man President Reagan dubs The Mad Dog of the Middle East. For over 40 years the Libyan despot terrifies, tortures and tricks the world with one horrific act after another. This is the story of Colonel Gaddafi, the Middle East’s longest serving dictator from his roots as an idealistic young revolutionary in 1969, to becoming one of the world’s most deadly terrorists. Mixing dramatic reconstruction with archive and testimony, this film shows how his quest to be taken seriously as an international statesman drives him to commit increasingly insane atrocities at home and abroad. It explains how he ends up an international pariah and reveals how his delusions of grandeur will lead to his downfall in 2011. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos.

Alexander the Great is the most famous commander of all time. His grave was lost some 1,000 years ago. Researchers around the world have been looking for it ever since. Whoever discovers it will go down in history. Within a span of just three years, Alexander the Great conquered the largest empire in the ancient world. He initiated the age of Hellenism, which still reverberates today. There are many legends surrounding him, but the greatest mystery of all is the whereabouts of his final resting place. However, some people think they know where it is. Andrew Chugg is relentless in his search for the conqueror's grave. The British author collects artifacts and writes books about Alexander the Great. His search for the tomb of the famous commander takes him across the former world empire and beyond - through Egypt and Greece to Venice - to the dawn of Christianity. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from

Nuremberg, 1593: executioner Frantz Schmidt lives a life between awe and loathing. Although he ensures law and order as an executioner, Frantz struggles with the dark side of his “dishonest” profession. He may enjoy prosperity, but he is denied social recognition. Since his first execution at the age of just 19, Frantz has been tormented by thoughts of his executed sentences and his undeserved fate of having to carry out this profession. For this reason, Frantz Schmidt does extra work as a healer, which is common for executioners. People from all social classes visit him in his executioner's house to be healed by him. At the same time, Frantz practises his bloody trade with the utmost precision - driven by the hope that one day he will be able to leave it behind him. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of

The history of aviation is a perpetual race. At no other time did more aircraft dominate the skies than during the Second World War. In the battle for supremacy in the skies, aircraft became a destructive weapon. Loaded with bombs and ammunition, they provided fear and terror from the air. It is the gruesome story of kamikaze pilots, ""Stukas"" and fighter planes, but also of ground-breaking technical achievements, such as the invention of the jet engine, which was to revolutionise aviation. In the civilian sector, too. Within a few decades, flying changed from an exclusive pleasure of a few to an almost everyday, mass means of transport. The second part of the documentary traces these developments - from the Second World War to the challenges facing aviation today. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week!

The history of aviation is a perpetual race. From the very beginning, inventors, pilots, designers and other sky stormers competed to make their dream of flying come true. The first part of the documentary tells the stories of aviation pioneers such as Otto Lilienthal, the Wright brothers or Louis Blériot, who realised their dream of flying against all odds. Women were also fascinated by flying, but they had a much harder time asserting themselves in this male-dominated world. Nevertheless, they set records, like the American Amelia Earhart, who was the first woman to cross the Atlantic in her plane. The two-part documentary tells of the race to develop the first fighter plane, of so-called ""flying races"" and of the invention of the world's first passenger plane. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week! The following

The Moche flourished in a narrow strip between the Pacific Ocean and the Andres mountains of Peru for 650 years (100-750 AD). Sometimes referred to as the 'Greeks of the Andes', the Moche may have founded the first South American state. Their culture was contemporary with the Nazca civilisation but through conquest and expansion they were able to accumulate the wealth and power necessary to become the most important pre-Incan culture. Despite desert conditions, they created a prosperous agricultural civilisation: their engineers building canals up to 32 km long to irrigate the land. Their temples and monuments include enormous pyramid mounds which dominate the landscape to this day. But their society is short-lived and around the 6th century AD, the Moche succumb to a series of disasters that lead to the end of their culture. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads

The battles of World War II brought new strategies to the fore. Chief among them was the ability to use technology to wreak destruction from afar. From unique engineering solutions like the Dambusters bouncing bomb, to the bunker-busting Tall Boy and Grand Slam some of these secret weapons were designed for a specific battlefield purpose. Others hoped to harness the innate capabilities of nature to deliver their destuctiveness, like the unerring precision of the homing pigeon, incendiary-armed bats or the Fu-Go balloon bomb. Some represented fantastic leaps forward in technology like the worlds first cruise- and ballistic-missiles and one, the nuclear bomb, would even go on to define an age. Each was designed in secret to serve a particular purpose, or solve a new problem. And if they succeeded, they were revealed for the first time as a blazing ball of fire. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the

Age-old stories and archaeological discoveries reveal magical practices and tell tales of both alluring and terrifying women with special powers. In early modern times, people believed they were working for the devil, bringing about crop failures and illnesses. Women suspected of witchcraft were often burned at the stake. Yet this belief in sorcery endures to this day, attracting an ever-increasing number of young female followers. So, what is behind the myth? Many researchers are trying to unravel it. Celebrated fairy tales and stories, fascinating archaeological discoveries and detailed archival records provide insight into the world and ideas surrounding witchcraft. Psychologists try to find out why magic seems to work on some people - and get some shocking results. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week! The following assets were used for thumbnails design: Baker, Joseph

Cleopatra is the embodiment of beauty, luxury and dangerous femininity, and is arguably the most famous woman in history. She was a legend even in ancient times. For over 2000 years, countless stories have circulated about the Egyptian ruler. But which ones are true? Will the latest archaeological discoveries give insight into the real life story of Egypt’s final queen? Her life is portrayed as a Hollywood blockbuster. But what did her life actually look like? Kathleen Martinez is determined to find Cleopatra's tomb. She hopes to reveal the truth about who the queen really was. For years, she has been conducting numerous excavations all around what used to be ancient Alexandria. Scientists have long believed that the queen's tomb lies at the bottom of a harbour. But Kathleen Martinez is following a different trail. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads

Adolf Hitler is the very personification of evil. He decides to eradicate anyone he feels is not part of his Master Race. He murders six million Jews. Hundreds of thousands of Slavs, Gypsies, homosexuals, and men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities. He invades a whole host of peaceful countries, begins a campaign of racial annihilation, and ruthlessly orders his troops to kill anyone in their way. Yet somehow Hitler manages to convince a nation of sophisticated, civilised people to be complicit in his horrific crimes. But what made him this way? What terrible forces turns a man born like any other into the most terrifying dictator the world has ever seen? This film charts Hitler’s extraordinary ascent from high school dropout and budding art student to the supreme and tyrannical leader of all of Germany. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the

For 30 years Joseph Stalin “the man of steel” ruthlessly dominated the Soviet Union. Born into poverty on the fringes of the Czarist Russian Empire, he became a gangster and then a revolutionary. Under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin he was part of the original Bolshevik leadership team, but when Lenin died he took his chance to grab the top spot. Nothing and no-one would stop him. His quest for absolute power transformed his nation, but at a brutal cost. His tools for advancement were famine, slavery and execution: so many millions died to secure his power that he can be accused of genocide. Friends and enemies alike would be executed so that Stalin might become all-powerful. Using terror and sophisticated propaganda to promote himself, Stalin made himself into a communist God, and condemned his people to live in fear for decades. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the

Explore the collapse of six ancient civilizations in this full archaeology and ancient history documentary. From the Akkadian Empire and Bronze Age collapse to the Maya, Doggerland, Sodom and Helike, discover how drought, war, earthquakes and tsunamis brought entire worlds to an end. From the fall of the world’s first empire and the mysterious Bronze Age collapse to the abandoned Maya cities, the drowning of Doggerland, the search for biblical Sodom and the destruction of the Greek city of Helike, this nearly five-hour documentary investigates some of history’s greatest catastrophes. Archaeologists, historians and scientists examine evidence of devastating droughts, mass migration, warfare, earthquakes, tsunamis and a nt worlds destroyed by one sudden disaster—or by a chain reaction of environmental, political and social crises? Discover: • How drought helped bring down the Akkadian Empire • The mystery of the Sea Peoples and the Bronze Age collapse • Why many great Classic Maya cities were abandoned • The prehistoric world hidden beneath the North Sea • The controversial search for the real city of Sodom • The disaster that buried the Greek

He’s a man born into power… the heart of the axis of evil. He tortures and executes hundreds of thousands of his own people with his finger held closely to the button. This is the story of a man with an insatiable desire for power and fame. A man raised to be a dictator who rules with sadistic cruelty. A man who let his people suffer in one of the world’s worst famines while he lives the high life with imported women, booze and the world’s finest foods. It’s North Korea’s Kim Jong-il. Stories from defectors include the rumour that he drowned his younger brother as a child, that he bugged his own father to see if he was considering someone else to take over from him, and that he had rivals shot if he thought they might stand in his way - all fell by the wayside in Kim‘s ruthless quest for power. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds

Founded at the beginning of the 9th century CE, the Khmer Empire had been one of the most powerful states in Southeast Asia, covering much of Cambodia, Thailand, Laos, and Southern Vietnam. The jewel in the crown was the capital city of the Khmer – Angkor – containing the largest religious structure ever built, Angkor Wat. The key to this growth was the Khmer mastery of rice cultivation and water management. Khmer cities were ‘hydraulic cities’, made up of complex systems of canals and reservoirs called ‘barays’, which steered water from the Khulen mountains to the plains of Angkor, ensuring a year-round supply for the population, agriculture, and livestock. Soon, however, the very factors that allowed the empire to rise lead to the abandonment of the Khmer’s magnificent temple-cities and their reclaim by the rainforest. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads

After the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989, Gorbachev tries desperately to keep on top of events. But in 1991 the Soviet Union is disbanded. Russia’s wars continue after the end of the Soviet Union in 1991 and under Boris Jelzin’s reign. In 2000 Wladimir Putin becomes President of the Russian Federation. Now the army regains its force and momentum. Putin’s vision is to revive the Romanov and the Stalinist Empire. His wars in Georgia, Tchetchnia and Ukraine betray the cunning spirit of a secret service man, always ready to lay the blame on Western liberal states. In 2014 Ukraine faces civil unrest under pro-Russian President Yanukovych, who is forced to resign. Putin seizes the opportunity to invade the Crimean and have pro-Russian separatists declare independence of two provinces in Eastern Ukraine – only to attack Ukraine eight years later. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far

Hundreds of years ago, sea-faring people called the Rapa Nui flourished on a small island at the easternmost edge of the Polynesian Islands – the Easter Island. When Europeans explorers first arrived in 1722, they found a tropical paradise, a land safeguarded by mysterious stone figures known as the moai. Hundreds of these statues dot the land to this day, facing inwards on the island, as if protecting its people. Scholars and archaeologists have spent centuries sifting through discoveries, trying to solve the mystery of the Rapa Nui. They soon discovered that the outbreak of a major conflict had devastating effects for the population on the Easter Island. Suddenly after, the Rapa Nui further succumbed to a series of deadly events that saw the entire social order of the island collapse and their culture, lost to history. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos.

What turns a ruler into a tyrant, and how do brutal leaders seize power and hold onto it? This documentary series examines some of the most notorious dictators and authoritarian figures in modern history, including Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, Saddam Hussein, Muammar Gaddafi, Kim Jong-il, Benito Mussolini, Hideki Tojo, Papa Doc Duvalier and Osama bin Laden. Through dramatic reconstruction, archive footage, expert testimony and accounts from survivors and eyewitnesses, it investigates the personalities, propaganda, violence and political tactics behind their rise. From Stalin's reign of terror and Saddam Hussein's ruthless elimination of rivals to the personality cult surrounding North Korea's leadership, the series asks whether these men were shaped by circumstances or predisposed to brutality, and why millions followed, obeyed or feared them. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week!

Stretching from the precipitous snowy peaks in the north to dense tropical rainforests in the south, Yunnan is home to the country’s greatest number of animal species and showcases the region’s priceless biodiversity. From the rarest and highest-living primates in the world to the last remaining troop of wild Asian elephants, the impressive variety of animals that inhabit some of the oldest mountain ranges on earth are testament to Yunnan’s much deserved title as China’s Kingdom of Wildlife. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week!

From attack helicopters to hypersonic missiles, in today's documentary we explore the modern military technology that revolutionised the concept of strategic deterrence and precision strikes. We take to the skies with the fastest and most advanced fighter jets in modern military arsenals to understand exactly how they maintain their superiority in the airspace by continuing to push the limits of aerodynamics and firepower. -- Welcome to the official Get.factual the original video platform channel! 🌍 We are a documentary streaming channel covering history, science, technology, and nature. Explore worlds distant, forgotten, and unknown; from the depths of ocean trenches to the far reaches of the cosmos. New uploads of full-length documentaries and docu-series every week!