In 1763, Britain became the world's most powerful empire.

It crushed France and seized new lands.

But to pay for victory, it taxed its colonies.

And in doing so, it created something it never saw coming.

This is the story of the beginning of the American Revolution: In 1763, Britain defeated France in the Seven Years’ War.

It gained vast territory in Canada, Florida, and dominance in India.

For the first time, it truly ruled an empire on which the sun never set.

But that victory came with a $200 million problem: debt.

On June 22, 1941, Hitler betrayed Stalin and launched the deadliest invasion in history.

3 million German soldiers stormed into Soviet territory, expecting victory in weeks.

Instead, it became Germany’s biggest blunder and the start of its collapse.

This is the story of Operation Barbarossa:
In 1939, Hitler was obsessed with conquering Poland, but there was a problem:

Britain and France had pledged to defend Poland.

Even worse, attacking Poland could drag the Soviets into the war, creating a two-front conflict...

A scenario that Hitler was desperate to avoid.

The Lost City of Troy was once thought to be pure myth.

Then, one German archaeologist defied every expert

And uncovered a secret that had been buried for 3,000 years.

This is the real story of the city that was never supposed to exist:
For centuries, scholars searched for Troy, the city Homer described in The Iliad.

Kings. Gods. A stolen queen named Helen.

And a wooden horse that ended a 10-year siege.

But was any of it real?

Or just epic poetry?

Adolf Eichmann murdered 6 million people from behind a desk.

Then he vanished.

15 years later, 7 Mossad agents waited at a bus stop in Argentina.

They weren’t there to arrest him. They came to kidnap him.

This is how Israel hunted down the architect of the Holocaust:
Eichmann wasn't a general.

He didn’t fire a bullet.

But he masterminded the Final Solution, Hitler’s plan to wipe out European Jewry.

He designed the system of trains, ghettos, and death camps.

He made genocide efficient.

In 1969, the US achieved the impossible: landing on the moon.

Yet, 50 years later, millions still believe it was the biggest hoax of all time.

Did NASA fake the moon landing, or is that just a conspiracy theory?

Here’s the truth behind the Apollo 11 mission:
The Case for the Moon Landing Being Real

1. Massive Scale of Collaboration

NASA’s Apollo program employed over 400,000 scientists, engineers, and support staff.

To fake such an event would require an airtight conspiracy across thousands of individuals.

The Nazis weren’t history’s only monsters.

Japan’s Unit 731 froze prisoners alive, dissected children without anesthesia, and unleashed plague bombs on cities.

And one man, Shirō Ishii, led it all.

Here’s the forgotten horror of WWII:
Shirō Ishii was born in 1892 into a wealthy Japanese noble family.

After earning his PhD in microbiology, he quickly climbed the ranks in Japan’s Imperial Army Medical Corps.

But Ishii wasn’t just interested in medicine, he wanted power.

In 1979, Iran’s 2,500-year monarchy collapsed in 14 days.

The Shah of Iran, once the U.S.’s closest ally, was exiled.

An exiled cleric, Ruhollah Khomeini, returned.

And the Middle East hasn’t been the same since.

Here’s the story of how Iran’s Islamic Revolution shook the global order: The fall of Iran’s monarchy wasn’t sudden.

It unraveled gradually, then all at once.

For decades, the U.S.-backed Shah of Iran tried to modernize the country at breakneck speed.

But he underestimated the power of religion, resentment, and revolution.

In 1982, "God’s Banker" was found hanging from a London bridge.

A $790M scandal, mafia ties & secret Vatican accounts, all leading to one question:

How did the Vatican build a financial empire so powerful yet shrouded in mystery?

Here’s the untold story of power & corruption:
The Vatican wasn’t always a financial titan.

In the early 19th century, the church faced its gravest crisis.

After Napoleon invaded Rome in 1798, Pope Pius VI was taken captive, and the Papal States, a key source of income, were lost.

The Vatican was on the brink of collapse.

In the 1950s, the CIA drugged Americans with LSD without their knowledge.

They used hypnosis, torture, and electroshock to try to control their minds.

It was called MKUltra.

And this is the story of the most horrifying government experiment in US history: After World War II, the CIA feared the Soviets had mind control technology.

They wanted a weapon to control human behavior, and in 1953, MKUltra was born.

The mission?

Turn science fiction into reality, no matter the cost.

In 1860, a French explorer stumbled upon a lost empire buried in the Cambodian jungle.

Angkor Wat—larger than medieval London, built by god-kings, powered by advanced engineering.

Then it mysteriously vanished.

Here’s the untold story of its rise and fall: Mouhot was astonished by the sheer scale of what he uncovered.

Angkor Wat, a 900-year-old religious complex, is the largest religious monument in the world.

Its intricately carved stone reliefs, vast corridors, and lotus-shaped towers rival the great cathedrals of Europe.

For over 300 years, Barbary pirates enslaved 1 million Europeans & Americans.

They raided ships, burned villages, and sold captives like cattle.

Until 8 U.S. Marines took on a pirate empire and ended the white slave trade forever.

Here’s the untold story that changed history: Between the 16th and 19th centuries, the Barbary corsairs operated from the North African coast, targeting ships from Europe and the Americas.

These pirates from Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, and Libya loot cargo and enslave crews.

2,500 years ago, Persia ruled the world.

At its heart stood Persepolis—a city so rich that the Greeks called it paradise on earth.

Then, in a single night, it was burned to the ground.

Here's how Persia built the greatest empire in history and how it was erased: In 515 BC, Darius the Great ordered the construction of a new ceremonial capital, Persepolis.

Built on a grand terrace carved into a mountainside, the city was unlike anything the world had seen.

Every detail was designed to project Persian power.

In the 1950s, the CIA turned innocent Americans into lab rats.

LSD, Hypnosis & Electroshock Therapy.

They used every weapon in their arsenal to control the human mind.

This is the true story of MKUltra: the CIA’s most horrifying secret experiment:
After World War II, the CIA feared the Soviets had mind control technology.

They wanted a weapon to control human behavior, and in 1953, MKUltra was born.

The mission?

Turn science fiction into reality, no matter the cost.

Hitler had a secret plan to nuke New York from orbit.

A supersonic spaceplane, nuclear bombs, and flying saucers, this wasn't sci-fi.

It was the nightmare Nazi scientists were racing to create in 1945.

Here’s the insane true story and why it failed:
By 1944, Nazi Germany was losing the war.

Allied forces were closing in on all fronts, and the once-feared German war machine was crumbling.

But Hitler and his top generals were obsessed with a final, decisive weapon:

A “Wunderwaffe” (Wonder Weapon) that could turn the tide.

In 1961, the Soviets built a bomb so powerful that it was 3,800 times more destructive than Hiroshima.

The scientist who built it was so horrified by his creation that he spent the rest of his life trying to stop nuclear weapons.

This is the terrifying story of Tsar Bomba:
The late 1950s saw the United States and the Soviet Union locked in an arms race, each trying to outmatch the other.

But in 1958, a moment of hope appeared: a voluntary nuclear test ban agreement.

For a brief moment, sanity seemed possible.

The first slaves in America weren’t African, they were Irish.

Men, women, and children were sold, starved, and worked to death.

Their suffering was buried for centuries.

Here’s the dark & forgotten truth about Ireland’s hidden history of slavery: Ireland’s introduction to slavery began with Viking raids.

In 795 AD, Norse invaders looted monastic towns like Armagh and Kildare, capturing Irish men and women as slaves.

Many were taken to Scotland, Norway, and Iceland, where they were ransomed, sold, or forced into labor.

Hitler’s deadliest weapon wasn’t a bomb, it was a U-Boat commander.

His name was Otto Kretschmer.

The Allies called him “Silent Otto.”

He sank 47 ships without a trace, terrorizing the Atlantic.

But one mission turned his legend into a nightmare.

This is his story...
Otto Kretschmer was born on May 1, 1912, in Heidau, Germany.

He was drawn to the sea from a young age, joining the German Navy (Kriegsmarine) in 1930.

By the outbreak of World War II, he had already risen through the ranks, but his time as a U-boat commander made him a legend.

This man was the CIA’s favorite journalist.

He dined with U.S. generals, advised presidents, and reported for TIME magazine.

But secretly, he was Vietnam’s top spy, leaking 498 classified reports that helped them win the war.

Here’s the mind-blowing story of the perfect spy:
Phạm Xuân Ẩn was born in 1927 into a family of colonial officials.

Ẩn was educated, sharp, and deeply patriotic.

In 1945, after Japan’s fall, he joined the Việt Minh, Vietnam’s independence movement.

But instead of taking up arms, he chose another path: espionage.

This man was a Soviet general & the CIA’s most valuable spy.

For 25 years, he secretly fed the US Soviet secrets from nuclear strategies to China’s military capabilities.

Then two Americans sold him out.

This is the story of Dmitri Polyakov: the man who tried to save Russia...
Born in 1921, Polyakov was a high-ranking GRU (military intelligence) officer.

He began working with the FBI in the late 1950s while stationed in New York.

Soon after, the CIA took over.

His access was unmatched.

Hitler's unsinkable battleship terrified the Allies.

3 years, 33 failed attacks, and 1,000+ soldiers died trying to sink it.

Then, on a freezing morning in 1944, the Dambusters launched a final mission.

Here’s how they sank the Tirpitz and changed WWII forever:
Launched on April 1, 1939, the Tirpitz was an engineering marvel:

1. 35 mph speed, faster than any British battleship.

2. Eight 15-inch guns with a range of 17 miles.

3. Armor thick enough to cause conventional bombs to bounce off its hull.

Hitler’s most feared battleship survived everything.

The Allies spent 3 years, 33 attacks, and 1,000+ lives trying to sink it BUT failed.

Then, on a freezing morning in 1944, the Dambusters launched a final mission.

Here’s how they sank the Tirpitz and changed WWII forever:
Launched on April 1, 1939, the Tirpitz was an engineering marvel:

1. 35 mph speed, faster than any British battleship.

2. Eight 15-inch guns with a range of 17 miles.

3. Armor thick enough to cause conventional bombs to bounce off its hull.