Roman legion recruits sought adventure, but in peace, defended borders or cities; Vindolanda and Lugdunum unveil their daily lives through ancient artifacts.
In Roman legions, camaraderie in contubernium sustained soldiers; Lyon excavations reveal their humanity and piety, hinting at hopes for retirement after 25 years.
Skilled engineers and pilots return historic warplanes to the air; pilot and engineer Richard Grace and his team restore a survivor of the Spitfire's rare mark from 75-year-old wreckage, salvaged from a Belgian scrapyard.
Pilot Shona Bowman is determined to get the battered Cessna Bird Dog, a Vietnam War mainstay, that she bought for £10,000 back in the sky; featuring recently rediscovered tapes of combat missions over Vietnam recorded by the pilots themselves.
Dutch pilots fought Hitler's Luftwaffe downing hundreds of aircraft; many joined the RAF but their outdated fighter vanishes; a family of restorers is recreating the Fokker D.XXI featuring rare color footage from a Dutch pilot.
Pilot Taff Smith rescues the wreckage of a Bucker Jungmeister, a relic from Franco's fascist air force; rebuilding it requires long hours and big bills and its resurrection could spark controversy in Spain.
Digging at a stately home, the team finds evidence of the American troops’ training, including the rooms where they were billeted, unchanged since 1944.
Suggs and Stephen are back on the hunt for more relics from World War II and hope searching the site of a bomb factory won't yield anything too explosive.
In pursuit of their Aryan dream, the Nazis were encumbered by an ideological war from within that would undermine their ability to succeed in World War II.
A massive deployment of paratroopers on June 5, 1944, provides support for the Allies in the Normandy invasion, stymieing Germany's attempt to drive them back.
The Nazis' concentration camps became centers for mass killings in World War II. Why did a system of concentrating populations lead to genocide? This final episode reveals all.