Episode list

'The Regulators' documents a pre-Revolutionary resistance movement that flourished in the colony of North Carolina. Living in a time fraught with rampant abuses of taxation and widespread corruption, Regulation supporters petitioned that the government merely follow the law. After years of abuse their opposition led to a showdown with Governor Tryon at the Battle of Alamance on May 16, 1771.

First hand accounts of the Irish Republican Army campaign in the North of Ireland from 1956 to 1962. Beginning with a series of daring arms raids, the guerrilla war fizzled out due to lack of support, but the IRA remained intact, ready for the next campaign.

"Soul Searching: the Journey of Thomas Merton" examines the life of a modern monk, a life filled with conflicts, controversies and love. Merton grew up embracing bohemian, intellectual pursuits which led him to communism which he put aside for Catholicism which led him to a strictly cloistered life in a rural Kentucky monastery. The writings that flowed from his cell over the next 27 years examined spirituality (of the East and West), the Cold War, the civil rights movement and the plight of the individual in the post-modern world.

Rooted in current news this investigation traces back Russia's intervention in Syria and sheds light on the war in Ukraine in a different way. Since 2015 in Syria, Vladimir Putin has benefited from the inaction of the United States and its European allies. It is also in Syria that Russia has experimented with its weapons and war diplomacy. This documentary recounts the broad outlines of Russian intervention in the Syrian conflict to understand how it has shaped the Kremlin's foreign policy over the last decade and how it made Vladimir Putin believe that he could easily defeat the Ukrainians. Filmed in Russia, Syria, Europe and the United States, this programmed is full of expert testimonies and archives.

America's Drone War investigates the impact of US drone strikes, at home and abroad, through more than 70 separate interviews, including a former American drone operator who shares what he has witnessed in his own words.

Just after the Second World War, 5,000 young children were sent from Austria to stay with host families in Portugal, where they could recover from the violence of war. They were often welcomed in by well-to-do families with domestic staff living in sunny villas, and for most of the children this was a holiday in paradise. The contrast with their living conditions at home, and the huge difference between the lives of rich and poor in Portugal in this period, made a deep impression on the young Austrians.