July 1936. A military coup triggers a bloody civil war in Spain which will claim 400,000 lives and forever change the country.

The god’s fight it out between themselves while Achilles continues his massacre with an insatiable wrath. Where will all of this violence lead?

The Winged Victory of Samothrace is a famous ancient Greek sculpture of Nike, the goddess of victory.

The story of Homer’s Iliad, the epic Ancient Greek poem recounting the Trojan War with its mortal heroes and meddling gods. In this episode: After Greek victories, the Trojans, helped by the god Zeus, make a comeback. The Greeks need their great warrior Achilles but will he accept to return to battle.

Decline and decadence are thought to have led to the fall of the Roman Empire.But is this the truth?

In two parts this documentary tells the painful story of the Spanish Civil War with descendants of Republicans and Francoists.

Yekaterina Duntsova was not allowed to stand for election against Putin. But she is not giving up.

 The story of a steadfast Soviet Union defeating the forces of fascism looms large in the Russian imagination, a story that Vladimir Putin uses to his own ends.