Witches: From Circe And Salem To The Modern Witch Revival

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

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

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!

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

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.

In the heart of Orion, a star one thousand times wider than our Sun is dying in slow motion. For years, scientists thought they understood it. They were wrong. Betelgeuse has been hiding a secret so close to its surface that finding it took ESO's best telescope, three years of waiting, and a scientist who ran into a room shouting. Tonight, we uncover a hidden companion star skimming through a giant's atmosphere, a mysterious dimming event that fooled the whole world into thinking the star was about to explode, and the real countdown to the supernova that will one day light up our daytime sky. If stories like this pull you in, stick around and subscribe, it helps more than you know. Orion is watching. Prepare yourselves. We begin. Sources: Andrea Dupree, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, published research and commentary on Betelgeuse Jared Goldberg, Flatiron Institute, Center for Computational Astrophysics, research on Betelgeuse's brightness cycles Steve Howell, NASA Ames Research Center, earlier companion star detection research