Inside Winchester: Alfred's Capital, Coronation Rites, and Henry VIII's Round Table

Imagine a city built to collect every idea on Earth. Alexandria tried it. What happened next changed history. Travel from Alexander the Great’s vision at Pharos to the grid of a purpose-built metropolis where Greek and Egyptian worlds fused. Step into Kom el-Dikka’s lecture halls, watch an astrolabe decode the sky, and hear how Eratosthenes measured the Earth while Aristarchus set the sun at the center. Inside the library, Callimachus invents the book catalogue as ships are searched for scrolls, and scholarship becomes power. But ideas ignite rivalries. As Christianity rises in a city of many faiths, tension crescendos to a moment that still shocks: Hypatia, the brilliant philosopher who redesigned the astrolabe, walks into a storm she cannot escape. What made Alexandria unstoppable—and what tore it apart? See the clues buried under streets and sea, from the lost light of the Pharos to Galen’s breakthroughs on the brain. Watch to uncover how a city that prized wisdom above gold reached for all knowledge, then paid the ultimate price. Stay to learn why its lesson matters now more than ever.

Two places. Two eras. The same nightmare returns. Disaster De Ja Vu traces how history repeats when nature and viruses strike back. From New York’s 1888 Great White Hurricane to 2016’s Snowzilla, see how a city learned to bury its wires, muster an “Army of the Shovel,” and mobilize subways and National Guard while whiteouts shut down Wall Street and stranded trains. Then the story pivots to Zaire, where a mysterious killer in Yambuku (1976) and later Kikwit (1995) turns hospitals and funerals into flashpoints. A broken vial on arrival, a worm-like virus under the microscope, and one quiet detail inside a mission hospital change everything. What decisions saved lives, and which practices fueled catastrophe? Which warnings mattered, and which came too late? Follow the clues, the hard lessons, and the resilience that emerged on both sides of the world. Watch to uncover the turning points we only hint at here—and why they still matter today. Watch now and see what history tried to teach us before it happened again.

“You have to act.” From the first chaotic minutes after touchdown to a sniper’s round stopped inches from a Marine’s eye, this is Marjah up close. Go inside Operation Moshtarak in Helmand as U.S. Marines and Afghan soldiers push through 360-degree contact, hunt a shooter firing through a wall slit, and adapt when IEDs force a chess game instead of checkers. Watch EOD uncover a daisy-chained kill zone, a medevac bird take RPG fire, and a hard choice about air support collide with concerns for civilians. Inside compounds, Marines find opium and ammonium nitrate. In town, bazaars reopen, condolence payments are delivered, and “government in a box” is put to the test — but the fight, and doubts, remain. Raw, unfiltered, and deeply human, this documentary reveals the split-second decisions, the cost of mistakes, and the fragile work of counterinsurgency you never see in headlines. Watch to the end for the moment that redefines what “holding ground” really means in Marjah. Watch the full story now.

Recovery teams face some of their most demanding jobs yet as a burning lorry shuts down the M1 during rush hour, a fully loaded 44-ton Arctic sinks into a muddy country verge, and a crane truck becomes stranded on a rugby pitch. With traffic chaos building and huge vehicles needing specialist recoveries, the engineers must use skill, experience and powerful machinery to get Britain's roads moving again.

From Apollo 11's tense 1202 alarm to SpaceX's early return attempts and ESA's Gaia, this episode traces how spaceflight evolved under pressure and ingenuity. Early on July 16, 1969, more than a million people gathered around Cape Kennedy to witness Apollo 11 lift off, the culmination of a decade aimed at meeting President Kennedy's lunar goal. At the launch center, tension was high as rocket pioneer Werner von Braun and NASA teams prepared the giant Saturn V. Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and mission commander Neil Armstrong brought hard-earned Gemini experience, while unusual simulators and a Langley gantry helped them rehearse lunar gravity. Twelve minutes after liftoff they reached orbit. Trans lunar injection and docking proceeded smoothly as mission control refined navigation alongside the Apollo Guidance Computer. In lunar orbit, the command module became Columbia and the lunar module Eagle. The descent toward a long ellipse in the Sea of Tranquility unfolded in stages. Fuel sloshing muddied guidance, then the computer threw a 1202 alarm. A young software engineer recognized the overload as survivable, and Armstrong used the final phase to

A teenager’s view from inside America’s most infamous cult. Diane Lake reveals how belonging turned lethal. From LSD “sermons” and free-love rituals to the night creeps called creepy-crawly, this film traces how Charles Manson’s charisma hardened into control. Hear first-hand moments at Spahn Ranch, the move into Death Valley’s Barker Ranch, and the apocalyptic obsession he called Helter Skelter. See how a brush with Beach Boy Dennis Wilson and a rejection by producer Terry Melcher twisted Manson’s ambitions, and why Gary Hinman’s death became a terrifying pivot. Then, the shock: how Cielo Drive and the LaBianca murders were framed to ignite chaos, and how a jailhouse confession cracked the case. If you think you know the story, you haven’t heard it told from the youngest insider who lived it. Watch to learn how manipulation works, why smart people get pulled in, and the chilling techniques cult leaders use to keep followers in line. Stay to the end for the moments that changed everything.