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The original British series which follows scientists, archaeologists and historians as they explore new evidence and new theories to explain enduring mysteries from human history.

Penn and teller visit China, Egypt and India to see local magicians perform.

They call it the fog of war - when brothers in arms accidentally kill each other. Two parallel stories, in Afghanistan and in France set 60 years apart, explore the emotional wake of these military tragedies.

So gigantic the success, so reprehensible the backgrounds. The video of the social campaign 'KONY 2012' of the NPO 'Invisible Children, Inc.' was clicked one hundred million times within a very short time after its publication. But under the pretense of sincere humanitarian intentions against the misdeeds of the alleged war criminal Joseph Kony, this appeal was intended to manipulate public opinion in a manner that led the US government to seek military intervention. This documentary leads to Uganda, the Central African Republic and the United States, and shows what obscure intents - from economic mining interests to religious fundamentalist proselytizing - were actually hide behind the operation of the US military in Africa and the activities of the opaque nonprofit organization with their Christian-right, evangelical financial backers.

The exclusive story of scientists around the world who are in race against time to find the secret of flu pandemics that wipe out millions. The worst one in recorded history was in 1918 and experts fear another one could be just around the corner. The 1918 Spanish flu pandemic killed an estimated 40 million people - more people than died in the First World War - and was the biggest infection in history. Many of its victims were young, fit people. The virus killed in an unusual way, by flooding the lungs with fluid and causing haemorrhaging. It died out as mysteriously as it began. But despite the pandemic's impact, scientists still do not know what caused it. One expert called it "an 80-year-old murder mystery" and this TV special investigates how it is about to be solved.

Archaeologist Mike Pitts investigates the cause of death of a person, whose 3,000-year-old remains were found in a shallow grave at Stonehenge.