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A 1994 Discovery Channel War Documentary narrated by Ron David. Formed in 1935, the German Luftwaffe secretly began designing formidable military aircraft while other countries leisurely explored aviation. The Luftwaffe launched many of the greatest combat aircraft of the era. The Fw-190 was a deadly success. The Me-109 became the German's reliable workhorse. The Me-262 was the only truly successful jet fighter bomber. With these planes, German Aces gave the Allies an awesome challenge in the skies. FW 190 "Butcherbird" - Armed with great speed, climbing ability and agility, it penetrated Allied bomber formations, and forced them to higher altitudes. Many who flew the Fw 190 call it the war's best fighter. Messerschmitt Me 109 "Legend" - The Bf 109, later known as Me 109, is credited for more than half of the German kills in WWII. This successful plane became the backbone of the Luftwaffe. Me 262 "Swallow" - The development of the Me 262 was plagued with controversy and setbacks, but in combat the jet's performance was unequaled. With speeds of almost 550 mph, the Me 262 flew lethal missions over Europe in 1944 and 1945.

A 1997 Discovery Channel War Documentary hosted by John Hedges. When the 100th Bomb Group first arrived at their new base of Thorpe Abbott, England, they had 30 bombers, 300 aircrew and 3,000 support staff. Of those original thirty crews, 86% were shot down. It earned the Group the chilling nickname 'The Bloody 100th'. This is the story of the men of the 'Bloody 100th' and the B-17 Flying Fortresses they flew on some of the most dangerous daylight bombing missions of the war, as told by the members of the 'Lucky Bastards Club' - the few who successfully flew 25 missions and were sent home. The Bloody 100th took part in Operation Gomorrah against Hamburg, and in the infamous Schweinfort and Regensburg raids. They were decimated over Munster, spearheaded raids against Berlin and - most controversially of all - were part of the terrible attack on Dresden that caused so many civilian casualties. Using much rare colour footage (including private home movies), gun camera film and dramatic archive material, this is the story of one of USAAF's most combat-experienced Bomber Groups.

A 1995 Discovery Channel War Documentary hosted by John Hedges. Before the advent of the long-range escort fighter, American bomber groups flying daylight bombing raids into the heart of Nazi Germany were at the mercy of the Me109s and Fw190s of the Luftwaffe. Losses on a single mission could sometimes exceed 30%. As the B-17s and B-24s were brutally torn out of the skies by 20 and 30mm cannon fire, the whole feasiblity of daylight bombing was called into question. And then the P-51 Mustang arrived. The P-51 was the only fighter with the range to escort bombers deep inside Germany - and it was a natural killer. By early 1944, the Luftwaffe had to be smashed as a prelude to D-Day and the P-51 would do the smashing, while the 100-mile-long bomber formations acted as fighter-bait... Packed with archive footage, dramatic gun camera film and exclusive interviews with Mustang pilots, this programme is a tribute to the fighter aircraft that won air superiority for the Allies in the war-torn skies over Europe.

Un documentario del 2011 diretto da Alessandra Gigante. La storia dell'amore infelice di Romeo e Giulietta divenne nota grazie a una delle tragedie più famose di William Shakespeare. Ma dove trovò ispirazione il grande poeta inglese? Romeo e Giulietta sono esistiti davvero? Era quello il loro nome? E perché Shakespeare scelse la Verona medievale come ambientazione? In una parola, qual è la verità nella storia d'amore più famosa del mondo? Più di cinquecento anni fa, a Udine, nacque un ardente passione tra una ragazza nobile, Lucina Savorgnan, quindicenne rampolla della nobile famiglia, e Luigi Da Porto, uomo d'armi e di lettere, fu amore a prima vista. Ma ad avversare la travolgente passione si mise di mezzo il destino. La loro tormentata vicenda darà vita alla più famosa storia d'amore di tutti i tempi, che Shakespeare scriverà alcuni decenni più tardi. Mariotto o Luigi e non Romeo? Giannozza o Lucina e non Giulietta? Siena o Udine invece di Verona…? E’ possibile che la storia d’amore più celebre di tutti i tempi abbia una base storica? Shakespeare si è limitato a cambiare nomi di persone e luoghi oppure ha lasciato che la fantasia coprisse completamente una delle tante storie di amore e morte che hanno popolato il Medioevo italiano? Oppure, più semplicemente, il famoso dramma shakespeariano, così come le novelle che l’hanno preceduto e ispirato, ha mischiato realtà e finzione? E fin dove è stato rispettoso della Storia? Un viaggio-inchiesta su un enigma storico-letterario che si incrocia con quello dell’uomo che ha reso immortali Romeo e Giulietta: chi era davvero Shakespeare? E cosa deve allo sfortunato letterato italiano Luigi Da Porto?

A 2002 ZDF History Documentary narrated by Nick F. Bolton and Martin Heckmann. Audio in English. The Battle of Lepanto took place on 7 October 1571 when a galley fleet of the Holy League, a coalition of Venice, the Papacy (under Pope Pius V), Spain, Republic of Genoa, Duchy of Savoy, the Knights of Malta and others, defeated a force of Ottoman galleys. The 5-hour battle was fought at the northern edge of the Gulf of Patras, off western Greece, where the Ottoman forces sailing westwards from their naval station in Lepanto met the Holy League forces, which had come from Messina, in the morning of Sunday 7 October. Of the major naval battles fought solely between rowing vessels, this was the last in world history. Follow an expedition to find the battlefield and the remains of the Lepanto Battle and learn about the greatest naval battle in world history.

Il programma approfondirà una delle pagine più importanti del Rinascimento: La congiura dei Pazzi, la cospirazione finalizzata a decapitare la famiglia dei Medici e stroncare la sua egemonia. La giornata particolare di questa puntata è il 26 aprile del 1478, una data che riporta ad uno dei periodi più affascinanti di sempre: il Rinascimento. L'ambientazione del complotto è Firenze, nella splendida chiesa di Santa Maria del Fiore. Durante una messa solenne, si svolge il più noto e feroce omicidio politico della storia italiana: la congiura dei Pazzi, così chiamata dalla famiglia di banchieri che intraprende il piano. L'obiettivo è decapitare la famiglia Medici, assassinando Lorenzo il Magnifico e suo fratello Giuliano. La congiura si concluse col ferimento di Lorenzo e l'assassinio di Giuliano. Tuttavia, la questione non è limitata a Firenze: i Pazzi sono in collusione con Papa Sisto IV, il pontefice che darà il nome alla Cappella Sistina. Partendo dalla sommità della cupola del Brunelleschi, che domina il duomo dove si verificò il delitto, Aldo Cazzullo - in compagnia degli inviati della storia Claudia Benassi e Raffaele di Placido - ricostruisce la congiura. Il conduttore e e gli inviati si muoveranno tra vendette sanguinose nei luoghi in cui l'arte ha raggiunto il suo apice: il duomo di Firenze con lo straordinario campanile di Giotto, le ville medicee, Palazzo Medici Riccardi con la cappella dei Magi di Benozzo Gozzoli e la magnifica cappella Sassetti del Ghirlandaio, che rappresenta la politica e lo spirito della famiglia Medici. Partecipano: Aldo Cazzullo con Vittorio Sgarbi, Franco Cardini, Ruggero Rollini, Donatella Lippi, Barbara Frale, Marcello Simonetta, Giulio Busi.

A 2017 Showtime Documentary Film, in 4 parts, directed and hosted by Oliver Stone. Audio in Russian and English, with English subtitles. For two years, Vladimir Putin and the director of the film met in the Kremlin, in Sochi, at the official residence of the president near Moscow. The film offers the viewer a portrait of the Russian leader in all its complexity and completeness. The film chronicles the key events discussed in the interviews. Part 2: https://rumble.com/v4c3bn6-the-putin-interviews-part-2.html

Part 3: https://rumble.com/v4c3ugr-the-putin-interviews-part-3.html

Part 4: https://rumble.com/v4c4fpc-the-putin-interviews-part-4.html

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A 2022 France TV History Documentary hosted by Stephane Bern. Audio in French with English subtitles. Who was hiding behind the "Iron Mask", the most famous prisoner of Louis XIV's France? Who decided to isolate this man by depriving him of all contact and all exits? What serious fault, what crime did he commit to suffer this punishment that no one before him had received? Writers like Voltaire, Alexandre Dumas and Marcel Pagnol largely contributed to forging the legend. No less than 50 hypotheses exist about the identity of the man behind this emblematic mask. In turn, we evoke a lover who is too imposing, a hidden son, a minister who is too greedy, or even a twin brother of royal blood, who risks having ambitions.

A 2014 France TV History Documentary hosted by Stéphane Bern. Audio in French with English subtitles. Cardinal Jules Mazarin (14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino, or Mazarini, was an Italian cardinal, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. In 1654, he acquired the title Duke of Mayenne and in 1659 that of 1st Duke of Rethel and Nevers. After serving as a papal diplomat for Pope Urban VIII, Mazarin offered his diplomatic services to Cardinal Richelieu and moved to Paris in 1640. After the death of Richelieu in 1642, Mazarin took his place as first minister and then of Louis XIII in 1643. Mazarin acted as the head of the government for Anne of Austria, the regent for the young Louis XIV. Mazarin was also made responsible for the king's education until he came of age. The first years of Mazarin in office were marked by military victories in the Thirty Years' War, which he used to make France the main European power and establish the Peace of Westphalia (1646–1648). A major uprising against Anne of Austria and Mazarin, called the Fronde and led by the nobles of the Parliament of Paris, broke out in Paris in 1648, followed by a second Fronde, led by Louis, Grand Condé, who had turned from his chief ally to his chief enemy. Mazarin took Anne of Austria and Louis XIV out of Paris and then shifted his base to Germany for a time. Turenne, a general loyal to Louis XIV and Mazarin, defeated Condé, and Mazarin made a triumphal return to Paris in 1653. The last years of Mazarin's life, between 1657 and his death in 1661, were marked by a series of major diplomatic victories. In 1657 he made a military alliance with England. In 1658 he unveiled the League of the Rhine, a new group of 50 small German principalities, which were now linked by a treaty with France. The same year, Marshal Turenne decisively defeated the army of Condé at the Battle of the Dunes in Flanders. Between February and June 1659, Mazarin conducted intensive negotiations with the Spanish. On 7 November 1659, Spain signed the Treaty of the Pyrenees, which added Artois, the Cerdagne and Roussillon as new provinces of France. That was followed in June 1660 by an even more important diplomatic event that had been carefully arranged by Mazarin, the marriage of Louis XIV with Maria Theresa of Spain. The marriage took place in Saint-Jean-de-Luz. The couple made a triumphant entry into Paris on 26 August 1660. The marriage and accompanying agreements ended, at least for a time, the long and costly wars between the Habsburgs and France. Exhausted by his diplomatic efforts, Mazarin died in 1661. Mazarin, as the de facto ruler of France for nearly two decades, played a crucial role in establishing the Westphalian principles that would guide European states' foreign policy and the prevailing world order. Some of the principles, such as the nation state's sovereignty over its territory and domestic affairs and the legal equality among states, have remained the basis of international law to this day. In addition to his diplomacy, Mazarin was an important patron of the arts. He introduced Italian opera on a grand scale to Paris and assembled a remarkable art collection, much of which today can be seen in the Louvre. He also founded the Bibliothèque Mazarine, the first true public library in France, which is now found in the Institut de France, across the Seine from the Louvre.

Episode 4: How the First World War transformed life on the home front, from a greater number of women in the workplace to increased government interference in everyday life.

Episode 5: Examining the use of forced labour to build weapons and vehicles for the German army, the downfall of the last Russian tsar, and the construction of the Hindenburg Line.

Episode 6: The impact of Russia pulling out of the war, only for the US to join soon afterwards, and the events in the aftermath that contributed to the Second World War.

Episode 3: The key events of 1916, examining the unprecedented levels of recruitment by both sides, and the thousands of deaths in the battles of Verdun and the Jutland Peninsula.

Episode 2: The development of new weapons technology, with a look at how machine guns completely changed the nature of warfare and the increased use of planes and U-boats.

A 2017 UKTV War Documentary narrated by John Heffernan. It explores the First World War through numbers. Episode 1: Look at the growth of empires in the years leading up to 1914 and the fatal first shot.

Episode 10: The effectiveness of its artillery was one of the dominating features of the German Army on the battlefields of the Western Front in the First World War. Indeed, a specific requirement of the Treaty of Versailles was that the new Reichswehr be denied heavy artillery. The expertise and technology that had made the artillery arm so effectivei in that conflict were never lost. So that when re-armament began in Germany in 1933, following the Nazi access on to power, the ground was already laid for the rapid expansion of artillery of all types for the new Wehrmacht. While never acquiring the glamour of the Panzer arm, the guns of the Wehrmacht were nevertheless instrumental in serving the German Armed Forces in victory and defeat through to 1945.

Episode 9: During WW2, the need for capable and qualified crewmen to work with and maintain the equipment became vital. In order to keep up with the demands of warfare, soldiers and engineers were educated partly with training films. This program shows footage of the Tiger tanks during Operation Citadel, as well as edited highlights of two German Army training films from late 1943 and mid 1944. Including two major military productions, the first of these films was produced to show how to convert the Panther tank, allowing it to successfully deal with the extensive Soviet defenses like those it encountered at its debut in Kursk. The second film from 1944, made for the benefit of personnel serving in Sdkfz 251 D's and the Panzerjaeger IV, may well be the only footage of this type to survive the war. Finally there are sequences showing such machines as the late Model Brummbaer which round off this fascinating assemblage of unique footage of German armored fighting vehicles from the latter part of WW2.

Episode 8: Seemingly present whenever German combat cameramen were filming, armoured cars and half tracks were as vital to the German war machine as the Panzers. Designed for the vital role of reconnaissance, they ranged ahead of the advancing Panzer spearheads to assess enemy strengths and intentions. Whether on four wheels or employing the more distinctive eight wheel configuration, German armoured cars would be seen as much a symbol of the Blitzkrieg as the Panzers themselves. This programme covers all these vehicles and includes rare footage of the late war 'Puma' armoured car in Normandy.

Episode 7: One of the most common images of German Armour in the combat footage taken by Goebbel's propaganda cameramen in the second half of the war in Europe, was the Assault Gun or 'Sturmgeschutz' (abbr. Stug). From 1942 onwards it was increasingly employed as a tank destroyer, but its origin lay not in that role but in a 1936 order for an armoured infantry support vehicle. The frequency with which assault guns are filmed in action from 1944 onwards, illustrates the manner to which this vehicle was employed as a substitute for the Panzers. By the war's end assault gun units claimed the destruction of no less than 20,000 allied tanks.

Episode 6: From 1940 until war's end, German industry produced a plethora of self-propelled weapons for the German Army. Whilst some of these were purposely designed, others were extemporary affairs developed rapidly using available weapons and chassis to serve the immediate need of the German Army in the field. Those covered in this programme fall mainly into the categories of tank destroyers and self-propelled artillery. This unique compilation of combat footage of these vehicles will allow the viewer to gain an insight into the variety and importance of such weapons to the German Army, down to its defeat.

Episode 5: There can be few people who have never heard of the Tiger Tank - indeed, it has come to be seen as one of the most potent symbols of German military power in the Second World War. First committed to combat on the Eastern front 1942, the Tiger and its more formidable successor - the Tiger II, 'Kingtiger' - had, by the time of the defeat of Nazi Germany, generated an awesome reputation that far belied the very small production run of fewer than the 2000 built. The history of this legendary tank is told with particular emphasis placed on combat footage of the Tiger in action, as well as footage of the Ferdinand/Elefant on the Eastern front and the Sturmtiger in action in the Warsaw Uprising of 1944.

Episode 4: The Panther was Germany's response to the shocking experience of encountering the superior Soviet T-34 tank in the wake of the invasion of Russia in 1941. While drawing heavily on the design of the T-34, the Panther was, however, a more sophisticated machine, incorporating features that led many to judge it to have been possibly the best designed tank of the war. This program covers not only evolution of the Panther design, but through the usage of combat footage, illustrates the Panther in action on all fronts on which the German Army fought from 1943 until 1945.