DEATH ON THE ROCK

http://youtu.be/x7MBqTw2vl0

Thames TV lost the London ITV franchise after this film was broadcast. Death on the Rock was the title of a documentary in the current affairs series This Week, made by Thames Television and broadcast on the ITV network on 28 April 1988. The programme investigated the incident, on Sunday 6 March 1988, when three members of the IRA, sent to Gibraltar on an active service mission, were shot and killed by members of British special forces.


The incident, and subsequently the programme about it, became controversial as a result of uncertainty and conflicting evidence about the manner in which the killing was carried out and the degree to which it was an "execution" with no attempted arrest. The programme interviewed witnesses who claimed to have heard no prior warning given by the SAS troops and to have seen the shooting as one carried out "in cold blood." Furthermore, the defence that the IRA team might, if allowed time, have had the capacity to trigger by remote control a car bomb in the main street, was also subject to criticism, including that from an Army bomb disposal expert.
Claiming that its transmission prior to the official inquest was an impediment to justice, the then foreign secretary, Sir Geoffrey Howe, attempted to stop the programme being broadcast by writing to the chairman of the Independent Broadcasting Authority, Lord Thomson of Monifieth. Lord Thomson refused to prevent transmission noting that "the issues as we see them relate to free speech and free inquiry which underpin individual liberty in a democracy."

MICHAEL WITTMANN, TANKKOMMANDANT DER WAFFEN SS

http://youtu.be/FFbPMbmW96I

Michael Wittmann
Michael Wittmann
Nickname	The Black Baron[1]
Born	22 April 1914(1914-04-22) Vogelthal
Died	8 August 1944(1944-08-08) (aged 30) Between the towns of Cintheaux and St. Aignan de Cramesnil near the farm of Gaumesnil[2]
Buried at	La Cambe German war cemetery (reinterred)
Allegiance	Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Waffen SS
Years of service	1934 – 1944
Rank	Hauptsturmführer
Unit	Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler and Schwere SS-Panzer-Abteilung 101
Battles/wars	World War II Polish Campaign Battle of France Battle of Greece Operation Barbarossa Battle of Kursk Battle of Normandy †
Awards	Knight's Cross with Oak Leaves and Swords

Michael Wittmann (April 22, 1914 – August 8, 1944) was a German Waffen-SS tank commander during the Second World War. Wittmann would rise to the rank of SS-Hauptsturmführer (captain) and was a Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross holder.
He was credited with the destruction of 138 tanks and 132 anti-tank guns, along with an unknown number of other armoured vehicles, making him one of Germany's top scoring panzer aces, together with Johannes Bölter, Ernst Barkmann, Otto Carius and Kurt Knispel who was the top scoring ace of the war with 168 tank kills.^[3]
Wittmann is most famous for his ambush of elements of the British 7th Armoured Division, during the Battle of Villers-Bocage on 13 June 1944. While in command of a single Panzerkampfwagen VI Tiger he destroyed up to 14 tanks and 15 personnel carriers along with 2 anti-tank guns within the space of 15 minutes.
The circumstances behind Wittmann’s death have caused some debate and discussion over the years, but it had been historically accepted that Trooper Joe Ekins, the gunner in a Sherman Firefly, of the 1st Northamptonshire Yeomanry was his killer. However, in recent years, some commentators have suggested that members of the Canadian Sherbrooke Fusiliers Regiment may have been responsible instead.^[4]

WAR AND CIVILIZATION: BLOOD AND IRON

Documentary series "War and Civilization", episode "Blood and Iron" discuss the revolution in warfare by the Industrial Revolution. Wars such as the Crimean War, Franco-Prussian War, American Civil War and Austrian-Prussian War reflected the changing firepower and tactics.

http://youtu.be/NvgvdpbX974

THE GREAT AFRICAN EMPIRES

http://youtu.be/7b3YK8QMJdg


MALI

THE ROSETTA STONE

http://youtu.be/pAYpH7tLZE8

The Rosetta Stone is an Ancient Egyptian artifact which was instrumental in advancing modern understanding of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing. The stone is a Ptolemaic era stele with carved text made up of three translations of a single passage: two in Egyptian language scripts (hieroglyphic and Demotic) and one in classical Greek. It was created in 196 BC, discovered by the French in 1799 at Rosetta and contributed greatly to the deciphering of the principles of hieroglyph writing in 1822 by the British scientist Thomas Young and the French scholar Jean-François Champollion. Comparative translation of the stone assisted in understanding many previously undecipherable examples of hieroglyphic writing. The text on the stone is a decree from Ptolemy V, describing the repeal of various taxes and instructions to erect statues in temples. Two Egyptian-Greek multilingual steles predated Ptolemy V's Rosetta Stone: Ptolemy III's Decree of Canopus, 239 BC, and Ptolemy IV's Decree of Memphis, ca 218 BC.

ANCIENT DRUGS

http://youtu.be/Ew8rkv5sQRU

Humans indulge in many frightening and often toxic substances; altered states of consciousness, shamanism, trance dancing, mind-altering substances, visions, soma, wine, beer, opium, Demeter cult (Mysteries of Elysis), alcohol, chocolate, tobacco, coca, San Pedro cactus rites (mescalin), cocaine, heroine, ayahuasca

MASTERS OF WAR: ASSYRIAN ARMY

http://youtu.be/V35L_joXXVQ


THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM

FROM BABYLON TO BAGDAD

Spanning millennia, from Ancient Mesopotamia to modern-day Iraq, this feature-length special definitively surveys the rulers - both those beloved and those reviled - of this fascinating region.
The region now known as Iraq has always been, in many ways, world history's ground zero. From this rich territory sprang the earliest cities and empires, earliest armies, and earliest tyrants.
THE KINGS: FROM BABYLON TO BAGHDAD tells the story of Iraq through the history of its rulers, from Sargon the Great to Saddam Hussein. Maintaining THE HISTORY CHANNEL® standard for comprehensiveness and entertainment, this feature-length documentary explores the connections and relevance between ancient and modern Iraq and between Iraq and the rest of the planet.
Using dialogue drawn directly from primary sources - original texts of ancient records - THE KINGS depicts events in dramatic, living reenactments. Lush cinematography filmed on location frames the dramatizations and contemporary reportage. And interviews with the world's leading experts on the historical and current relevance of Iraq complete this authoritative portrait of the men who brought this fabled land glory and despair.
http://youtu.be/aAH0QAoH6Cg

BABYLON

http://youtu.be/sK5-MbZuY_g


THE HANGING GARDENS (ARTIST IMPRESSION)

LOST PYRAMIDS AND OTHER HIDDEN ANCIENT ARTIFACTS

http://youtu.be/OzmdYVNDC7w