Official Secret

Templar knights in their distinctive white mantles with a red cross, brave in the face of death rather than fleeing from the enemy, fighting for Christ and the Pope in the Holy Land during the Crusades. This documentary series aims at reconstructing, for the first time, in a complete fashion the evolution of the knights belonging to the Order of Solomon's Temple, whose original goal was to protect pilgrims during their travels to Jerusalem after the victory of the Crusaders at the First Crusade. The Knights Templar grew in power and wealth becoming the earliest banking institution of the Middle Age. They were so rich that they financed the King of France and benefitted from a direct and exclusive link with the Pope.

Kim Jong Un rules the world's most secret and repressive state. But thanks to the digital revolution, Kim can no longer keep the world from seeing the reality of life in North Korea - or stop his own people from discovering that everything they have been told about the outside world is a lie. Dispatches films with Jiro Ishimaru, a fearless Japanese journalist who has risked his freedom for fifteen years, training undercover cameramen in North Korea. The programme follows Jiro's latest trip to the border with China, where he secretly meets one of his agents with the latest undercover footage revealing the reality of life in the secret state.

What is hidden within the walls of the Vatican? The Secret Archives of the Vatican, 43 kilometers of shelves that contain official and private documents of the history of the Church. In "Archivum Secretum Apostilicum Vaticanum" the term "secret" can evoke something obscure and unfathomable, in reality it derives its meaning from the etymology of the term "secretum", the more accurate translation is "personal" or "private".

The private lives of the Nazis is a tale of sordid self-fulfilment at total odds with official policy and the theory of a pure master race. Hitler, Himmler, Goebbels and many others indulged themselves whilst creating The Advisory Board for Population and Racial Policy to oversee the morals of the German population. However, Britain's secret Special Operations Executive knew the truth and set up a special division to elaborate on it.

Did the man behind Hitler’s secret weapons program survive the war? Was SS General Hans Kammler covertly brought to the USA to safeguard his knowledge? Allegedly he had committed suicide on 9 May 1945. Yet, recently found documents contradict the official version. Kammler controlled a widespread network of underground production sites vital to the German war effort. But Kammler was not merely in charge of the latest state of the art weapons technology. The former architect and civil engineer was also one of the key figures behind the construction of concentration camps and the systematic employment of their inmates as forced labourers.

Explore the true stories behind some of the most incredible undercover military operations. The world's security and safety depend on the top-secret agents who carry out undercover operations. Those operations are one of the most dangerous and challenging types of investigations which require much tactical preparedness and close continuing assessment during the operation. From disclosing the truth behind covert operations, to exposing some of the world's most infamous spies, this action-packed collection features the most fascinating espionage stories ever told.

Dead men don't tell tales - or do they? Are there forensic clues left in the sands of time? Are there traces of archive film which even today are waiting to unveil their grisly secret? Not all the captivating and fascinating stories of military escapades in the 20th Century have been fully examined and many fascinating insights are still to be revealed and told.

This series of thirteen one-hour films tells the tale of that extraordinary group of people, the Nazi Hunters. They chased some of the most hated and reviled people on earth. Sometimes they did it for the highest of motives. Sometimes in ways that, when revealed, would horrify their own supporters. They were chasing those whose crimes were so horrendous that they demanded retribution. And there were many prepared to hunt the perpetrators until justice was done - from Churchill to the SAS to the Strategists who planned the D Day landings to Mossad. These stories of pursuit and the struggle to balance the scales of justice are full of drama and tragedy.