The Mysterious Disappearance of Amelia Earhart | A Tale of Two Sisters

Christopher Columbus set sail with the honest intention of discovering a new trade route to Asia. However, as the realities of the continent he discovered became clearer, his greed and brutality took over. This shift in his behavior began the darkest chapter in Spanish colonial history, an era known as ''The Black Legend''. In a few short years, Columbus and his men turned paradise into hell.

His name has become synonymous with the term "womanizer". But a new perspective may shed a more positive light on the life of Giacomo Casanova. A true son of the renaissance, Casanova was a musician, a cleric, a spy and a lover. He led a tempestuous life where he amassed and lost fortunes, invented the National Lottery, fought duels with Counts, and had the most famous love life of all time. This dramatised documentary series is based upon a collection of letters left by Casanova in the library of Duchov Palace where he died at the age of 73, all but forgotten by a world that he had charmed, amazed and shocked only a few years before.

This documentary follows the childhood of the two Princes and the impact their mother's death left on them. The popularity of Princess Diana meant the boys were always under the watchful eyes of the media, but this in-depth analysis of their early life offers a different perspective on their upbringing.

King Herod is regarded as the most fascinating and appalling figure of the biblical world. Shrouded in legend, the evil King is portrayed in every Christmas Nativity play as a monster who killed hundreds of babies and tried to slaughter the baby Jesus in order to retain his title - King of the Jews. But who was the real Herod? Was he real at all, or just a figure of myth?

Since Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD, burying the city of Pompeii, it has been frozen in time. But now, more secrets behind the ancient Roman city are being revealed with the help of new technologies in Science Channel's Lost World Of Pompeii. Pompeii is a delicately conserved attraction that is under constant threat from the wear and tear of extensive tourism, the specter of landslides, and the possibility of another devastating eruption from Mount Vesuvius.

Who were the first Europeans, and what did they actually look like? In this feature-length documentary, cutting-edge genetic science and archaeology combine to rewrite thousands of years of human history. By extracting ancient DNA from skull bones buried deep within ancient tombs and ring forts, researchers are peeling back the millennia to uncover the truth about our ancestors—from dark-skinned, blue-eyed hunter-gatherers to the Neolithic farmers who erected Europe’s most magnificent megaliths. Plus, journey into the early Middle Ages to uncover shocking "deviant burials," pagan rituals that survived the arrival of Christianity, and the chilling ancient fear of the living dead. 💚 Join the Absolute History club to get access to exclusive member benefits! 📺 You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more.