8 fast paced episodes using animation, archive and recon to reveal the funny, disturbing, weird, but always interesting bits of history.
History: The Interesting Bits
DETAILS
It’s safe to say that never has there been so much history as there is now. Most of it is a matter of opinion. Much of it is really hard to understand. Half of it is probably wrong. And a lot of it, frankly, isn’t very interesting. So what’s needed is a totally fresh, different, exciting look at history’s ‘Interesting Bits’.
History with the boring bits taken out.
8 fast paced episodes using animation, archive and recon to reveal the funny, disturbing, weird, but always interesting bits of history.
- Release Date:
- 2022
- Genre:
- History,
- Docuseries
- Rating:
- Starring:
- Alexander Armstrong
EPISODES
S1:E1 How to Be President
We look at who’s run and who’s won the Presidency and how you keep the top job once you’ve got it.
S1:E2 How to Get Away with It
We look at history’s most interesting criminals, con artists, frauds and fakes.
S1:E3 How to Keep a Secret
Empires and lives have been won and lost over secrets. Let’s meet history’s most interesting spies.
S1:E4 How to Start a War
We discover you can start a war over anything, from assassination to a lost ear, or even pastry.
S1:E5 How to Make a Fortune
Meet histories richest people. How did they get it, how did they spend it and were they happy…
S1:E6 How to Fall in Love
Throughout history, people have lost heads, wars and their sanity for love we find out how and why…
S1:E7 How to Build a Revolution
History is full of revolutions. But how can you avoid creating monsters?
S1:E8 How to Be Inventive
Our modern world was created through invention, but it’s not always clear who first had the spark…
