Persian Eyes (16mm Short Film & Trailer)

In the third and final part of the series, Alastair Sooke charts the decline and fall of the Roman Empire through some of its hidden and most magical artistic treasures. He travels to Leptis Magna in Libya shortly after the overthrow of Gaddafi and finds one of the best preserved Roman cities in the world and the cradle of later Roman art. Sooke discovers glorious mosaics which have never been filmed before, but also finds evidence of shocking neglect of Libya's Roman heritage by the Gaddafi regime. His artistic tour takes him to Egypt and the northern frontiers of the empire where he encounters stunning mummy paintings and exquisite silver and glassware. As Rome careered from one crisis to another, official art became more hard boiled and militaristic and an obscure cult called Christianity rose up to seize the mantle of Western art for centuries to come.

One man combined the occult and rockets to produce the technology that underpinned Mutually Assured Destruction. A skull found in 1912 seems to solve Darwin's puzzle of where we came from. Mary Mallon infects hundreds with typhoid despite being healthy.

The world's greatest paintings - and the most audacious art heists of all time. Gripping true stories of a global game of cat and mouse as high culture meets the underworld.

When Justin Paperny, a high-flying and ambitious Wall Street stockbroker, with a promising and well-rewarded career, decides to bend the rules and break the law, he must face his ultimate downfall.

.Episode 3 - August

Weapons expert Mike Loades examines the classic and enduring image of the medieval battlefield: the knight in armour. Exploring the development of armour against the development of weapons, the programme scientifically tests the equipment to see if it really would have protected the soldiers that wore it.

Alaric's Goths sack Rome; Attila the Hun seizes power through chaos and destruction while the barbarians move in for the kill. The Vandal king, Geiseric, masterminds the end of Rome; the Empire falls.

Darren Aronofsky, Will Smith, and experienced astronauts join forces to tell the extraordinary story of why life as we know it exists on Earth. Premieres March 26 on the National Geographic Channel.

When night falls, everyone heads for home. But what lurks in the darkness is far more chilling than anyone could have imagined.

Tracy Borman delves into the incredible story of Henry VIII's second wife.