Season 4
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A determined historian uncovers hidden truths, challenging perceptions of history while grappling with personal demons and unexpected revelations.
Episodes
Professor Danielle George uses five decades of BBC archive to find out how well disaster documentaries keep pace with scientific theories that advance every day.
Alice Roberts explores BBC film archive to show how the views on Vikings and their culture have changed since the 1960s by shifting from their brutal side to their pioneering trading endeavors and integration into other cultures.
David Olusoga examines fifty years of BBC documentary archives to try and discover why dictators can have such a powerful appeal and asks if our fascination has fed their power.
For centuries the story of exploration has been packed with incredible tales of adventure, but the last fifty years has seen a dramatic shift in our attitude towards explorers. To find out how television has reflected this, Prof Fara Dabhoiwala delves into the BBC television archives, revealing that the pace of this change was faster than you would imagine.
Using archive footage from the long-running Timewatch series and the BBC in general, the televised evolution of a particular subject is examined each time.