Programación de Get.factual

January 28, 1945. World War II comes to Germany. Total war, in all its drama, strikes back at the Germans and reaches its climax on German soil.

March 6, 1945. Cologne is the first major German city to fall to the Allies. Stalin plans to conquer Berlin before the other Allies arrive.

April 16, 1945. The Red Army begins its offensive on Berlin. The first concentration camps have been liberated by British and US forces, who discovered emaciated prisoners and corpses.

After the war, hunger and adversity shape daily life in East Germany. Many Berliners go to the countryside in search of food. In the city, a notorious gang of youths is up to no good.

Robbery, murder, rape. After the war, West Germany is the scene of brutal crimes. On the German-Belgian border, children risk their lives for something to eat.

Germany, 1945. A nation faces up to the ruins of its past. Hunger and adversity shape daily life. What lengths did people go to? Over two episodes, Crime in Post-War Germany explores this transitional phase in German history by using the examples of individual, particularly serious criminal cases. C

Discover how agents tricked the Germans to keep their troops out of Normandy.

Discover a darkly humorous British ploy that helped the 1943 landing in Sicily.

Discover how a Soviet Intelligence officer avoided WWIII.

Discover how and why several brilliant scientists divulged the secrets of the atomic bomb.

America and Europe in 1491, and why America was discovered and not the other way around.

The true legacy of Columbus is biological, and it created one world out of two.

More than 2000 years ago the Maya built gigantic cities in the middle of the jungle of Central America. They were brilliant inventors and set standards in writing, mathematics and astronomy.

The Aztecs: Within a very short time they created a huge empire, whose metropolis was a perfectly organized floating garden city on the Mexican plateau.

The Incas appear out of nowhere and within a few decades their empire develops into the largest empire in the world at the time.

To many, Columbus is the man who discovered America. Yet, there had been others before him. This is their story!

A German-Egyptian team is looking for traces of the largest temple of the pharaohs in the middle of Cairo and for answers as to why the sanctuary was abandoned more than 2000 years ago.

The Romans created one of the greatest empires in history, built with the help of an incredible army of professional legionnaires and a well-oiled political machinery. At its height, a few hundred men ruled over a fifth of mankind and an area stretching from Britain to Syria and from Gibraltar to th

This episode explores the Vikings not as ruthless raiders but as groundbreaking seafarers, traders, and explorers. Master shipbuilders, they forged vast networks of commerce stretching from Europe to Asia and even reached the shores of America centuries before Columbus. By challenging the stereotype

After the war, hunger and adversity shape daily life in East Germany. Many Berliners go to the countryside in search of food. In the city, a notorious gang of youths is up to no good.

Robbery, murder, rape. After the war, West Germany is the scene of brutal crimes. On the German-Belgian border, children risk their lives for something to eat.

Germany, 1945. A nation faces up to the ruins of its past. Hunger and adversity shape daily life. What lengths did people go to? Over two episodes, Crime in Post-War Germany explores this transitional phase in German history by using the examples of individual, particularly serious criminal cases. C