Documentary Eiffel Tower - History Channel

Documentary Eiffel Tower - History Channel
If you thought that men in love with real dolls was strange, wait until you see Married to the Eiffel Tower, which follows these fetishists (all of them, for some reason, female).
Interestingly, Objectum Sexuals - they call themselves OS people - believe their love with the objects are reciprocal and that they can telepathically communicate with them.

Naisho is married to the Eiffel Tower. History Channel She has a passion for inanimate objects, and her mission is to fight the stigma surrounding the disorder and create a global network of sufferers - like Amy, in love with a church organ, and Eija Riita, who married the Berlin Wall. Documentary In this compelling documentary about objectum sexual disorder the characters describe just what it's like to be in love with a highly public structure.

Documentary Rubber - History Channel

Documentary Rubber - History Channel
Delicious, delectable, soothing and, yes, American. Chocolate was a New World discovery, one of the most sought-after treasures brought back to Europe from the brave new land across the Atlantic. Cacao, from which chocolate is created, is said to have originated in the Amazon at least 4,000 years ago.

The Aztecs were so enthralled with the bean that they attributed its creation to their god Quetzalcoatl who, as the legend goes descended from heaven on a beam of a morning star carrying a cacao tree stolen from paradise. History Channel In fact, the Aztecs valued the cacao bean so much that they used it as currency.
The Aztecs also used the cacao beans to prepare a thick, cold, unsweetened drink called chocolatl - a liquid so prestigious that it was served in golden goblets that were thrown away after one use. Documentary Christopher Columbus, in 1502, was the first European to run across the beans on his fourth voyage to the New World.

Documentary Declassified The Taliban - History Channel

Documentary Declassified The Taliban - History Channel
To the United States and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan was always a pawn in a much bigger game. History Channel First the Soviets bought them off and then the U.S. sent in arms. The Russians sent in troops and we sent in the CIA to train the Mujahedin to kill the Russians.

But then came the Taliban and the pawns started moving on their own. Documentary We’ll mine the guarded vaults and archives around the world to reveal the untold story of how the pieces turned on the players and the jihad came to Kabul and the streets of New York.

Documentary Engineering an Empire Egypt - History Channel

Documentary Engineering an Empire Egypt - History Channel
Egypt: Engineering an Empire is a History Channel documentary narrated by Peter Weller, exploring Egypt’s awe-inspiring engineering accomplishments through the prism of its pharaohs' indomitable personalities.

 As Egypt's pharaohs alternately conquered and ceded vast expanses of land, they pushed their royal architects to stretch the boundaries of imagination and human potential, in effect inventing the science of structural engineering. Documentary Follow the empire's development from the First Dynasty of 3000 BC through the last days of the reign of Ramses the Great in 1212 BC, from dazzling obelisks to the 700-foot Great Pyramid of Giza.

Documentary Engineering an Empire Da Vinci's World - Documentaries

Documentary Engineering an Empire Da Vinci's World - Documentaries
After the Dark Ages Italy lit up the world. It emerged from the devastating cloud of the Black Death and brought innovation, spectacle and the glorification of man. It was an explosion of new ideas from some of the greatest minds of all time. It produced some of the greatest works of architecture, art and engineering the world has ever known.Documentaries But achieving such genius was a struggle, as builders battled unprecedented natural disaster, church dogma and each other. This was the age of architects and it created a bold new sense that nothing was impossible.

After the fall of Rome, Italy fell into a dark sleep, and wasn't reawakened until the 11th century. Documentary Autonomous city-states emerged and these tiny republics began to revitalize their cities and build on a massive level not witnessed since the rise of Rome. History Channel In the late 15th and 16th centuries, alliances among various city-states continually shifted as foreign superpowers tried to sink their claws into Italy. The masters who are best known for creating the works of art and architecture of the Renaissance, were also the greatest military and civil engineers of the time.

Documentary Engineering an Empire The Persians - Documentaries

Documentary Engineering an Empire The Persians - Documentaries
Ancient Persia, fearless, formidable, unrelenting, for ages shrouded in mystery, an empire unparalleled in conquest and riches. From North Africa to Asia it was a civilization driven by a dynasty of extraordinary rulers, ambitious and all powerful. The Persian Empire created some of the most astonishing feats of engineering the world has ever seen.

Documentaries Magnificent palaces that rose up from barren desert, roadways, bridges and canals, but dark clouds were on the horizon. Documentary An ancient rivalry with Greece would erupt into an epic clash and change the course of history and shape the western world for thousands of years to come.

The Persian Empire was one of the most mysterious civilizations in the ancient world. Persia became an empire under the Cyrus the Great, who created a policy of religious and cultural tolerance that became the hallmark of Persian rule.

Documentary Declassified Chairman Mao - History Channel

Documentary Declassified Chairman Mao - History Channel
This biographical documentary profiles Communist party leader Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (1893-1976). One of the most formidable leaders that the world has ever seen, Mao was undeniably a brilliant political and economic mind, despite his role as a progenitor of 20th Century Communism and a homicidal despot. 

 

History Channel This program tells Mao's unusual story - how he decided, early on, that he must "destroy" his country in order to liberate it through reconstruction. In the process, he harnessed the Chinese extremist youth movement and single-handedly brought about the notorious Cultural Revolution, while murdering millions. Documentary The film draws on a wealth of archival material to tell this strange, disturbing story, and also interpolates interviews with several individuals who lived through Mao's terrors.