EnhanceTV History Highlights RSS Feed http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvhighlights/?category=51 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:46:12 1000 FeedCreator 1.7.2 http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=106236 Britain's leading battlefield archaeologist Tony Pollard and his best friend, fellow archaeologist Neil Oliver, conduct major archaeological digs at British battlefields. Together they peel back the layers of time to unearth the extraordinary stories of the men who fought and died there, as well as exploring the developments in the technology and tactics of warfare over the last 600 years. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=144022 First Australians chronicles the birth of contemporary Australia as never told before, from the perspective of its first people. In episode 3, the threat of extinction hovers over the first Australians of Victoria at the time Wurundjeri clan leader Simon Wonga seeks land from the authorities. He soon gives up and leads his people to the banks of the Yarra River, claiming a parcel of land, Coranderrk. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE) http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=147406 In the new Australian series of Who Do You Think You Are? rock star and activist John Butler goes searching for his heritage hoping to find poets, musicians and revolutionaries. John traces the Butler name back through generations of hardship. A pattern emerges where young men must takeover and be fathers to their siblings. In the end, at the paddle steamer town of Echuca, he finds the matriarch who inspired this quality, who sang for her own survival and fought against the odds to hold her family together. (STUDY GUIDE AVAILABLE) http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=162472 Bringing together rare and forgotten footage, this six-part series provides a ground-breaking portrait of WWII that depicts not only its complexity, but the perspectives of both its victims and its victors. Tonight, the story of Hitler's lightning invasion of France and its rapid collapse, of the evacuation from Dunkirk, and of the summer of 1940 when Britain fought on alone. http://www.enhancetv.com.au/tvguide/displaytv.php?RecordId=164275 On April 4, 1968, escaped convict James Earl Ray shot and killed Dr Martin Luther King while he lingered on a motel balcony in Memphis, Tennessee. Roads to Memphis tells the wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of an assassin, James Earl Ray, and his victim, Dr Martin Luther King, Jr, against the backdrop of the turbulent forces in American society during this period.