Mafia: Most Wanted is a three-part documentary series that reveals the inner workings of a crime family and the global empire ...

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Kursk: 10 Days That Shaped Putin is a dramatic and forensic examination of events that took place in August 2000, after an explosion onboard the Kursk submarine trapped a group of survivors at the ...

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It was in November 1989 that the most notorious physical symbol of the Cold War was finally torn down. Now, three decades on, the Berlin Wall still looms large in the minds of those who lived during ...

The Tyburn Tree In 1571, a most extraordinary gallows was erected at Tyburn. Known as the ‘Tyburn Tree’, the gallows consisted of a horizontal wooden triangle supported on three legs and were used for ...