Higgins Ridge
The incredible story of 20 elite firefighters (smokejumpers) who parachuted into the wilderness to put out a wildfire burning on a mountain ridge.
The Normans
S1 E2 Conquest Professor Robert Bartlett explores the impact of the Norman Conquest of Britain and Ireland. Bartlett shows how William the Conqueror imposed a new aristocracy, savagely cut down opposition and built scores of castles and cathedrals to intimidate and control. He also commissioned the Domesday Book, the greatest national survey of England that had ever been attempted.
The Wheelchair President
David Reynolds re-examines the war leadership of American president Franklin Roosevelt. At the height of war, Roosevelt inspired millions with stirring visions of a new and better post-war world, but it was a world he probably knew he would never see. He was commander-in-chief of the greatest military power the world had known, and yet a man whose paralysis from polio made him powerless to accomplish even the most minor physical tasks.