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Titanic's Lost Evidence, episode 1 of History's Greatest Mysteries

Titanic expert, Craig Sopin on 'Titanic's Lost Evidence'
An engraving by Pieter Brueghel the Elder showing three women afflicted with the plague | Wikipedia | Public Domain

The mystery of the dancing plague of 1518

Flood tunnel breakthrough
Chess board | Pixabay |

The history of chess: 'The immortal game'

Legends of the Pharaohs: Episodes

History's Greatest Mysteries: Episodes

The Curse of Oak Island Episodes

Top Secret UFO Projects Declassified: Episodes

6 Things You Didn’t Know About Laurence Fishburne
A vintage picture of two women and a man throwing snowballs

How our ancestors celebrated Christmas
William Dobson - Portrait of a Family, Probably that of Richard Streatfeild

Why did the Puritans cancel Christmas?
'Christmas' was first recorded as a surname in the 12th century and is believed to be Norman in origin

Mr and Mrs Christmas: A short history of a very festive surname
A photograph of a football pitch

Football Godfathers: Episode Guide
German soldiers who were captured in Normandy disembarking

The German Great Escape of Camp 198

Swamp People: 'One Man Army'
A long tunnel leading into the Newgrange. On the left, a spiral pattern depicted on the rocks outside

The mystery of Newgrange: Ireland's megalithic marvel
Odin, in his guise as a wanderer, by Georg von Rosen | Public Domain | Wikipedia

How the Vikings gave us Christmas
Water fountain with a bust of Michel de Nostradame or Nostradamus

Nostradamus: Which of his predictions came true?

Forged In Fire: The ULTIMATE strength test
Nuremberg Trials. Defendants in their dock, circa 1945-1946, Herman Göring left | Wikipedia | Public Domain

Nuremberg: 'The greatest trial in history'
The USS Arizona

What if Japan never attacked Pearl Harbor?
 1944 Color portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt | FDR Presidential Library & Museum

Surprising family links of US Presidents
Accrington Pals by Tim Green | Flickr | Wikipedia | Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license

The Pals battalions of World War I

The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain - Competition

The drinking session that led to Civil War
Italy Detachment 2nd SAS Regiment - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italy_Detachment_2nd_SAS_Regiment.jpg

How did the SAS carry out its first postwar covert operations?
Engine room of an oil-burning German submarine

The U-Boat commander who almost killed Churchill
Rotating wheels on a cipher machine labelled with letters of the alphabet

The Polish cryptographers who cracked the Enigma code

What if JFK was never assassinated?
Mametz, Western Front, a winter scene, painting by Frank Crozier | Public Domain

Lesser known facts about The Battle of the Somme

How to Use Ancestry to Research Your International Family
Painting of the burial of The Unknown Warrior in Westminster Abbey

The secret mission to select the Unknown Warrior

Saddam Speaks in Court | Public Domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saddam_Hussein#/media/File:Saddam_Hussein_at_trial,_July_2004.JPEG | P

Operation Red Dawn: The mission that snared Saddam Hussein
Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Eldest son of Prince James Francis Edward Stuart. Painted by William Mosman around 1730 | Public Domain

Bonnie Prince Charlie: Rebel prince

Edith Wilson

Edith Wilson: America's First (Acting) Female President
The Empire Windrush

The Empire Windrush: The story of the Caribbeans who came to Britain in 1948