PBS America Friday

Part two of two. Joann Fletcher examines the Ancient Egyptian attitude to death, looking at why they spent a fortune preparing for it and what they hoped to find in the afterlife

A look at how fascists fled to Madrid in 1944 to escape the Allied forces and wove their own secret web known as ratlines to help Nazis escape to South America or the Middle East

Part two of two. Joann Fletcher examines the Ancient Egyptian attitude to death, looking at why they spent a fortune preparing for it and what they hoped to find in the afterlife

A look at how Franco's rule was legitimised by Spain's economic upturn, but new influences entering the country confronted the regime with new challenges

The Watergate scandal forces President Nixon to resign, while North Vietnamese troops pour into the south and Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses

A look at how fascists fled to Madrid in 1944 to escape the Allied forces and wove their own secret web known as ratlines to help Nazis escape to South America or the Middle East

A look at how Franco's rule was legitimised by Spain's economic upturn, but new influences entering the country confronted the regime with new challenges

The Watergate scandal forces President Nixon to resign, while North Vietnamese troops pour into the south and Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses

Part two of two. Joann Fletcher examines the Ancient Egyptian attitude to death, looking at why they spent a fortune preparing for it and what they hoped to find in the afterlife

A look at how fascists fled to Madrid in 1944 to escape the Allied forces and wove their own secret web known as ratlines to help Nazis escape to South America or the Middle East

A look at how Franco's rule was legitimised by Spain's economic upturn, but new influences entering the country confronted the regime with new challenges

The Watergate scandal forces President Nixon to resign, while North Vietnamese troops pour into the south and Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses

A look at how Franco's rule was legitimised by Spain's economic upturn, but new influences entering the country confronted the regime with new challenges

Paul Murton travels from the icy shores of the Lake of Menteith to the cold summit of Ben Nevis to discover how Scotland was promoted as a winter holiday spot

A look at how fascists fled to Madrid in 1944 to escape the Allied forces and wove their own secret web known as ratlines to help Nazis escape to South America or the Middle East

Paul Murton travels from the icy shores of the Lake of Menteith to the cold summit of Ben Nevis to discover how Scotland was promoted as a winter holiday spot

The Watergate scandal forces President Nixon to resign, while North Vietnamese troops pour into the south and Saigon descends rapidly into chaos and collapses

Paul Murton travels from the icy shores of the Lake of Menteith to the cold summit of Ben Nevis to discover how Scotland was promoted as a winter holiday spot

Two-part documentary looking at the history of Berlin, starting from the era of Prussian kings through to the unification of Germany

Following Germany's defeat in the Second World War, Berlin was divided at the Potsdam Conference in 1945, a division that became an emblem for the Cold War