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- When Enola Holmes (Sherlock's teen sister) discovers her mother is missing, she endeavours to find her, becoming a super-sleuth in her own right as she outwits her famous brother and unravels a dangerous conspiracy.
- After New York City receives a series of attacks from giant flying robots, a reporter teams up with a pilot in search of their origin, as well as the reason for the disappearances of famous scientists around the world.
- Retrospective documentary covering aspects of the Zodiac investigation, including interviews with the original investigators and surviving victims.
- The origin, history and impact of the 1882 law that made it illegal for Chinese workers to come to America and for Chinese nationals already here to become U.S. citizens.
- The Community Idea Stations' new documentary "Charlottesville" explores the events that led to the tragedies of August 11 and 12, 2017, and grapples with the difficult question of how such acts could have occurred in modern America.
- Im April 1944 entkamen zwei Gefangene wie durch ein Wunder dem deutschen Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau und berichteten der Welt erstmals aus erster Hand die schreckliche Wahrheit. Der Dokumentarfilm folgt den abenteuerlichen Wegen, die beschritten werden mussten, um diese Informationen an die Alliierten weiterzuleiten. Rudolf Vrba und Alfred Wetzler waren Lagerinsassen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau. Beide hatten durch ihre Funktionen detailliertes Wissen über die Mechanismen der Massenvernichtung: Wetzler musste als Lagerregistrar alle Besitztümer der Neuankömmlinge wie Kleidung oder Schmuck registrieren. Aus diesem Grund wusste er, wie viele Menschen täglich im Lager ankamen. Seine Deutschkenntnisse erlaubten ihm außerdem, Gesprächen der Wachmänner zu folgen. Wetzler und Vrba gelang die Flucht. Was sie dem slowakischen Judenrat aus dem deutschen Vernichtungslager berichteten, floss in einen detaillierten Report, der das Ausmaß der von den Nazis betriebenen "Endlösung" verdeutlichte, später bekannt geworden als die "Auschwitz-Protokolle". Ihr Bericht wurde dem von US-Präsident Roosevelt gegründeten War Refugee Board übermittelt: Zwischen den Alliierten entbrannte daraufhin eine heftige Debatte, wie sie den Massenmord in Auschwitz verhindern könnten. Aus dem Bericht war bekannt, dass sich die Nazis auf die Ermordung von 800.000 ungarischen Juden vorbereiteten. Es musste also gehandelt werden. Eine Option war, die neu gebaute Bahnlinie Kosice-Presov in Richtung Auschwitz zu bombardieren - oder das Lager selbst. Briten und Amerikaner hielten eine Bombardierung des Lagers für falsch. Alle verfügbaren Kräfte wurden für die Landung in der Normandie mobilisiert - dies sei der beste Weg, die Nazis zu schlagen und so die europäischen Juden zu retten. Für manche war das Versäumnis, Auschwitz zu bombardieren, moralische Feigheit. Andere hielten eine Bombardierung unter möglicher Inkaufnahme Tausender unschuldiger Toter für inakzeptabel.
- Over two centuries ago, Britain and France fought a battle that would change the world. Now largely forgotten, the Battle of Quebec was once a story every schoolchild would have known. At stake was the future of North America and the fate of the British Empire. Britain used its growing industrial strength and a new scientific approach to fight a campaign unlike any that had gone before. It launched a fleet of 200 ships carrying 20,000 men on a deadly mission through uncharted waters. Dan Snow, an expert in this period of history having recently written a book about the expedition, sets sail up the magnificent St Lawrence River following the route taken by the British. He heads out into the wilds surrounding Quebec, takes to the air, and trains as an 18th-century infantryman, to get a true idea of what the campaign and battle would have been like for the men involved. This period in history is best known as the setting for the Hollywood blockbuster Last of the Mohicans. Yet the events of that year, 1759, helped create the modern world and define Britain's place in history.
- Ryan discovery she is more Canadian than she thought and that she has three generation in Canada and says she looks nothing like the male ancestor as that boat has sailed. They then show her paintings of two of her relatives in Nova Scotia, cod traders in Newfoundland and links direct to Dorset and a pub called the ship which has since been renamed.
- At Virginia's Fort Monroe, we discover a remarkable place: the spot where slavery began in British North America, and the site where it began to unravel during the Civil War. From one of the newest National Park Service sites to a historically-minded brewery and more, we learn from a diverse cast of people engaging visitors with defining moments in our national past.
- Texas has long been a place of contentious borders and cross-cultural exchange. Six national flags have flown over Texas since the 1500s, starting with European contests for the land that followed 10,000 years of Native American history there. From Spanish missions, to a French shipwreck, to a former sugarcane plantation, historians visit to ask: How did Texas become Texas?
- After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. military and FBI arrested more than 110,000 Americans of Japanese ancestry. Ed visits Manzanar, once an incarceration camp and now a National Park Service site, to meet those keeping the memory alive.
- For a week in 1919, long-simmering tensions between white and black residents in Chicago erupted in violence. Its aftermath shaped laws and housing for generations. Host Edward Ayers visits Chicago during the 100th anniversary of what became known as the "Red Summer." He meets a poet, performance artist, museum educator, and young people who are creating living memorials to a long-ignored past.
- In the Utah desert in 1869, a golden spike marked the completion of the first transcontinental railroad. On the 150th anniversary, Ed speaks with descendants and educators to learn about this triumph-and its human and environmental costs.
- A look at America's waning belief in the infinite possibilities of its land and resources.
- Scientists are racing to develop potential vaccines. Labs are preparing for widespread testing. Families are desperate for an answer to a public health crisis. This was the story in 1954, when a new vaccine to prevent polio persuaded the parents of more than a million children to join a nationwide trial. Ed Ayers, host of The Future of America's Past, learns from a polio survivor, an epidemiologist, and a scholar about the successes and challenges of distributing a new vaccine.
- Airline executive Juan Trippe, pilot Charles Lindbergh, airplane builder Igor Sikorsky and radio engineer Hugo Leuteritz struggle to find a place in post-World War I aviation. Their struggles illuminate the challenges aviation pioneers faced in these early, uncertain days. After repeated setbacks, the four men join forces to build an airline to South America.
- As they push southward, Trippe, Sikorsky, Lindbergh and Leuteritz build larger flying boats, harness radio to navigate safely over great distances, and, with help from the U.S. government, outwit all competing airlines to dominate service to Latin America and launch the global air tourism industry - but all of this is merely preparation for their ultimate goal: flying the oceans.
- Defying the skeptics, Pan Am builds an airway to Asia, allowing its airplanes to hopscotch across the world's widest ocean by landing at five steppingstone islands: Hawaii, Midway, Wake Island, Guam and the Philippines. Air service from New York to London begins in 1939, completing a chain of airways encircling the globe.
- The first episode focuses, among other things, on on the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, known as the cradle of mankind. In Africa, giant rivers limited trade and the exchange of ideas, and European colonialists transformed the continent. What future challenges does Africa face?
- Sarah Millican is astonished to discover that her three times great grandfather was one of the first ever divers in the world.
- 2016–7.3 (7)TV Episode