Timewatch

Reveals the history behind the temple at Karnak in Egypt which took 2,000 years to build and was the greatest religious shrine of the ancient world.

Investigates Stalin's real role in the Korean War. Includes documents from the Soviet archives and interviews with key witnesses.

Explores the mysteries surrounding Sir Francis Drake's last voyage to the West Indies, which ended with his burial at sea off the coast of Panama in 1596. Also investigates the truth behind his reputation as a great naval hero.

Update of a 1973 documentary looking at offenders at the Peper Harrow young offenders institution. This programme follows the lives of six of the offenders asking whether the centre helped them break the circle of violence.

Brings to life the interviews carried out by Henry Mayhew in Victorian London which he undertook to document ordinary people's lives.

Documentary exploring the reputation of Field Marshall Douglas Haig, once known as "The Butcher of the Somme". There is now a new perspective on the man and veterans of the Somme as well as historians give their views. Includes archive footage of the general.

Norman Schwarzkopf discusses his military hero Hannibal and how his strategies were the inspiration for the allies' tactics in Desert Storm in the Gulf War. Follows Hannibal's route from the ruins of Carthage to the walls of Rome, recreating ancient battles with the aid of computer graphics.

Seeks to sort out the fact from fiction regarding Rennes-le-Chateau in Southern France.

Recounts the story of Will White through his letters home. He was one of thousands of amateur prospectors who rushed to the Klondike river in 1896 for the Goldrush.

Uses newly released archive film and testimonies from former prisoners in this documentary discussing the tens of thousands of foreigners who were sent to the Soviet Union's labour camps.

Investigation into how close the world came to a nuclear war in the 1960s. Looks at evidence that between 1948 and 1964 Curtis E LeMay and Thomas Power, who controlled the nuclear bombers of US Strategic Air Command, built up a huge nuclear arsenal and made plans for a US first strike called "preventative action" without presidential knowledge. It claims they tried to provoke the USSR into a nuclear strike with over-flights of US spy planes. Also considers the war mentality and state of minds of LeMay and other top American generals of the time and the Cuban missile crisis.

Documentary revisiting the town of Aberfan where in 1966 a coal tip collapsed and killed over one hundred children. Uses personal photographs and archive film to remember what happened and how people have coped.

Reunites three of those who fought in the Hungarian uprising in 1956, Bela Liptak, Greg Pongratz and Imre Mecs who view the orginal 1986 film CRY HUNGARY and discuss how far the ideas of the revolution were achieved.