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Explore captivating stories unveiling daily routines across distant times, spanning medieval kingdoms to war to Dresden.

The rise and fall of the Maya, the Incas and the Aztecs, three pre-Columbian civilizations whose greatness and mysteries fascinate.

From Africa to Asia and from Australia to America. The series explores how the continental plates and nature have shaped and influenced our different cultures.

From winds that connect peoples to bacteria that topple empires: the six-part documentary series tells of the effect of the elementary forces of nature on the fate of humanity.

In 1218, life was in full swing at Münzenberg Castle. In the heart of the Holy Roman Empire, in the present-day state of Hesse, Eberhard von Münzenberg managed the estate, collected taxes and oversaw the care of the building. As an illegitimate child, Eberhard was not the real master of the place: it was his half-brother Ulrich I who owned the castle. In the midst of this emblematic picture of the time, a quarrel with another noble house and a marriage on the verge of falling apart upset the old residence, and all the organization of life that goes with it. Negotiations, intrigues and family stories shake up this microcosm.

New York, 1882. Georg Schmidt, a young German newly arrived in the United States, leaves behind him a Reich led by the iron fist of Chancellor Bismarck. He crossed the Atlantic with dreams of social ascension, like many of his fellow citizens. He was able to become a lawyer in three years, and now finds himself at the heart of an important trial involving gangs. His fiancée, who joined him after months of separation, has just arrived in this metropolis that has almost as many Germans as Berlin or Vienna. Arrested at the port after her luggage was found to contain stolen goods, she ended up in prison. The young lawyer then turns to the New York bandits, the only ones able to help him prove his beloved's innocence.

What did really happen to Marilyn Monroe between August 4th. 1962 3:00 p.m. and August 5th. 1962 4:30 a.m. ? The star had plans for the following weeks and even months, plus no glass nor any kind of liquid by her nightstand, so the official suicide hypothesis by having ingested dozens of barbiturate capsules doesn't seem credible.

The first episode focuses, among other things, on on the Great Rift Valley in East Africa, known as the cradle of mankind. In Africa, giant rivers limited trade and the exchange of ideas, and European colonialists transformed the continent. What future challenges does Africa face?