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Captain Kidd, the treasure hunter, turns from pirate hunter to pirate.

A resistance of a handful of Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian partisans unfolded against the Soviet Union's stranglehold on their territory at the end of the Second World War. Learn more about these fighters.

Civil rights activists Charles and Shirley Sherrod, founders of the New Communities agricultural co-op; harvesting pecans; a unique twist on pecan pie.

Presenting the latest products live on television that can be ordered directly. The product range extends from vacuum cleaners and bath towels to sports equipment.

Presenting the latest products live on television that can be ordered directly. The product range extends from vacuum cleaners and bath towels to sports equipment.

A family uses traditional methods to harvest sap and make syrup; how maple producers experiment with new flavours.

The ruthlessly ambitious Hernán Cortés travels deep into the Mexican interior to conquer one of the greatest empires in the Americas: the Aztecs. His victory cementing the subjection and submersion if indigenous populations.

Blackbeard's name strikes fear into all as a brutal diabolical pirate.

As his Red Army advances towards Berlin to liberate Europe from Nazism, Stalin pursues another goal, to join the countries of Eastern Europe to his empire.

In the early days of his chancellorship, Hitler appeared to be fulfilling his promise of returning Germany to prosperity, but there was a deeply sinister side to the apparent economic miracle.

A family uses traditional methods to harvest sap and make syrup; how maple producers experiment with new flavours.

The ruthlessly ambitious Hernán Cortés travels deep into the Mexican interior to conquer one of the greatest empires in the Americas: the Aztecs. His victory cementing the subjection and submersion if indigenous populations.

In the early days of his chancellorship, Hitler appeared to be fulfilling his promise of returning Germany to prosperity, but there was a deeply sinister side to the apparent economic miracle.

Blackbeard's name strikes fear into all as a brutal diabolical pirate.

As his Red Army advances towards Berlin to liberate Europe from Nazism, Stalin pursues another goal, to join the countries of Eastern Europe to his empire.

In the early days of his chancellorship, Hitler appeared to be fulfilling his promise of returning Germany to prosperity, but there was a deeply sinister side to the apparent economic miracle.

The ruthlessly ambitious Hernán Cortés travels deep into the Mexican interior to conquer one of the greatest empires in the Americas: the Aztecs. His victory cementing the subjection and submersion if indigenous populations.

Blackbeard's name strikes fear into all as a brutal diabolical pirate.

As his Red Army advances towards Berlin to liberate Europe from Nazism, Stalin pursues another goal, to join the countries of Eastern Europe to his empire.

In the early days of his chancellorship, Hitler appeared to be fulfilling his promise of returning Germany to prosperity, but there was a deeply sinister side to the apparent economic miracle.