b'PROGRAMMES 2025 NEW SERIES NEW SERIESGENREHistory & MysteryDURATION 6 x 60PRODUCERDash PicturesBROADCASTERNational GeographicYEAR OF PRODUCTION2023VIEW MOREVIKINGS: The year 1492 marked the start of nearly a century of brutal Spanish conquestof the Americas and the beginning ofThe Age of the Conquistadors. The THE RISE & FALL ruthless and violent acquisition of huge parts of the New World by men like Columbus and Corts would see the fall of the mighty Aztec and Inca civilisations as well as the deaths of millions of indigenous people through oppression, enslavement and disease.Popular culture has painted the Conquistadors as brave Christian pioneers, but a shifting narrative has GENRE For over 300 years the Vikings waged war from the seas with brutalrevealed a darker story to their rise and History & Mystery effect. But were they blood-thirsty plunderers or cunning politicalfallone built on unthinkable atrocities DURATIONoperatives? In this compelling series we witness the Vikings firstand fuelled by an insatiable and blinding 6 x 60 voyages beyond the Scandinavian coast, the sacking of York, andthirst for gold, power and glory.sieges of Paris, as we uncover the trade routes the Vikings developed PRODUCER as far east as Baghdad and West, to discover America. We hear theCONQUISTADORS: Dash Pictures myths, meet the legends and witness the rise and fall of the greatest BROADCASTER warriors in history. National GeographicThe Viking expansion was unprecedented in the veracity of its spread. YEAR OF PRODUCTION Known for merciless bloodshed, the Norsemen became the mostTHE RISE & FALL2021feared people in history. However, their story has always been told from a one-sided, Christian point of view and only now, after rigorous VIEW MORE research through mythical sagas and bioarchaeological finds, can we uncover the truth about who the Vikings really were.56/57'