Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 3 | Juarez, the Catholic Church & the US Civil War | Ancient to Recent I Episode 28
At the height of his power, Emperor Maximilian believed he could reconcile monarchy with liberal reform and heal a nation torn apart by decades of war. By the end of 1864, the Second Mexican Empire st...
13 Joulu 202543min
Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Part 2 | US Civil War, Franz Josef and the Catholic Church |Ancient to Recent I Episode 27
In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria crossed the Atlantic to claim a crown forged in diplomacy, ambition, and illusion. What awaited him in Mexico was not the enlightened monarchy he imag...
6 Joulu 202541min
Maximilian of Mexico: The Rise and Fall of the Second Mexican Empire | Benito Juárez, Napoleon III & Habsburg Mexico | Ancient to Recent I Episode 26
In 1864, Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian of Austria took the throne as Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, believing he could unite a fractured nation and build a modern empire. Instead, he stepped into one o...
29 Marras 202556min
Hermann Goering and the Nazi Mind Part 2 | Nuremberg & The Final Deception | Ancient to Recent | Episode 25
At Nuremberg in 1945, the last leaders of the Third Reich faced judgment before the world. Hermann Goering arrived determined to turn the courtroom into his personal stage, launching a defiant perform...
22 Marras 202547min
The Ukrainian Revolution Part 4 | Holodomor: Stalin’s Terror-Famine in Ukraine | Ancient to Recent | Episode 23
In 1932–33, Ukraine faced one of the deadliest tragedies of the 20th century, the Holodomor. Stalin’s regime seized food, blacklisted entire villages, sealed Ukraine’s borders, and used starvation as ...
7 Marras 202549min
The Ukrainian Revolution Part III | Stalin’s Collectivisation: The War on Ukraine’s Peasants | Ancient to Recent | Episode 22
By the end of the 1920s, Stalin had a vision, to forge a new Soviet man and break the old peasant world forever. Across Ukraine, a war was declared on the countryside. Villages were torn apart, church...
31 Loka 202545min
The Ukrainian Revolution Part II | Lenin, Stalin, and the Seeds of the Holodomor | Ancient to Recent | Episode 21
In the aftermath of revolution, Ukraine lies in ruins. The Bolsheviks have won the Civil War but for Lenin, victory is not enough. From the brutal terror of the Cheka to forced grain seizures and man-...
24 Loka 202550min
