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Explores the impact of machines on history, including the printing press, the Model T and early personal computers. Contains content created using AI technology.
From ancient catapults to stealthy drones, whoever controls the skies, controls the battlefield.
When the mission looks impossible, you call in special ops - and Dolph Lundgren. Join him as he takes you behind enemy lines to reveal the elite machines behind history's boldest operations.
If size counts, these machines rewrite all the rules. Dolph Lundgren gets up close inside legendary giants: the Antonov An-225 cargo jet - history's largest aircraft; the 200-ton WWII Maus tank designed by Porsche for Hitler - the largest ever made.
Forget Hollywood - real-life spy gear is far more fascinating. Dolph Lundgren pulls the curtain back on the shadowy devices that won secret wars: the CIA's pigeon-mounted spy cameras, bone-conduction radios hidden inside tobacco pipes, the deadly silent heart attack gun, and the secret Enigma code that changed WWII. It's espionage, engineering, and secrecy at its best.
How do you master a planet covered by 70% water? Build history-changing machines to conquer it. Dolph Lundgren dives into the stealthy German U-boats that nearly won WWII, the ancient canoes that crossed the Pacific, James Cameron's groundbreaking Deepsea Challenger, and the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier that faced down nuclear war. Welcome to Water World.
Speed is more than a number - it's human ambition in high octane. Dolph Lundgren hits overdrive with the record-breakers: the Thrust SSC jet car blasting past Mach 1, Concorde's legendary supersonic jet that halved travel times, and NASA's Parker Solar Probe, the fastest man-made object in history. Fasten your seatbelt for an adrenaline-pumping journey through machines built by speed-obsessed visionaries.
Sometimes it really is rocket science - with a twist. Blast through history with Dolph Lundgren as he reveals the remarkable rockets that transformed warfare, exploration, and human potential, from the ancient Korean Hwacha artillery that changed battlefields forever, to the Saturn V moon rocket that captured humanity's imagination, to Martin-Baker's rocket-powered ejection seat that saved over 7,000 lives. Fasten your seatbelts for a blast of history like you've never seen.
With Dolph Lundgren leading the charge, witness the printing press that toppled kings, the Apple II computer dreamed up in a garage, to the iconic Model T that put the world on wheels.
Self - Host
The specter of drug trafficking haunts Europe. Struggling with ultra-violent criminal groups that control the vast majority of cocaine trade, European police forces are overwhelmed. The epicenter of all this trafficking: the Netherlands. A nation at the forefront of international trade and drug policy. This two-part film delves into the origins of European drug trafficking through the unique history of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Out of the ashes of World War I, a new generation of titan rises…Pierre Du Pont, Walter Chrysler, J.P. Morgan Jr., Henry Ford, and William Boeing. Their fight to reach the top will transform America as they compete to dominate new industries—from the highways to the skyways. After years of fighting each other, and FDR, these rivals must unite during World War II to defeat a greater enemy and save the world.
This is the story of a power struggle between two men - one fictional, and one real. In one corner is the master of crime – the greatest detective who never lived, Sherlock Holmes. In the other is writer, physician and spiritualist leader Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Lucy Worsley explores the extraordinary love-hate relationship between author and creation.
From dangerous explosives and deadly curses that put everyday people at risk, to treasures found in the unlikeliest of ways, each episode digs into the people, the places and historical significance of these discoveries. And sometimes just being in the right place at the right time can make history…because nothing stays hidden forever.
In four chapters, largely based on and illustrated with archaeological finds and sites, Neil Oliver explains how, as far as is known, the Iron Age Celtic tribes known as the Ancient Britains evolved and entered European civilization. Their internecine tribal phase was warlike and partitioned. Overseas contacts, especially metal trade, brought wealth and progress. Ultimately, it attracted the superior Roman empire, which would conquer and pacify Britain into a province, like Gaul shortly before, but Caesar's invasion wasn't the definitive annexation yet, that was left to emperor Claudius; even afterward some Celtic traits and even rebellions remained.
