After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist reformer, now obsessed with the idea of power, he founds the National Fascist Party in 1921 and assumes political power in 1922, becoming the Duce, dictator of Italy. His success encourages Hitler to take power in Germany in 1933, opening the dark road to World War II. (Originally released as a two-part miniseries. Includes colorized archival footage.)

A BBC documentary uncovers, for the first time, the original manuscript where Newton forecast the date of the end of the world. Newton, the father of modern mathematics, dedicated a large part of his life to a quest to decode the Bible which he believed to be the word of God. For over 50 years, he studied the Bible trying to unravel God's secret laws of the Universe. He was fanatical in his quest to discover the date for the Second Coming of Christ and the end of the world. Scholars have spent years trying to unravel Newton's writings on the Book of Revelation to establish when he thought the apocalypse was coming.

卡洛琳（海伦·巴克森代尔 Helen Baxendale 饰）是一名在北爱尔兰驻扎的英国皇家宪兵队中士，她加入军队已经有十二年之久了。一天，卡洛琳忽然被别人举报是一名同性恋者，军方因此拘捕了卡洛琳，对她进行了长达四天的审讯，在当时，同性恋甚至被视作是一种犯罪，如果卡洛琳被坐实了这一身份，她有可能因此被送上军事法庭。 在审问期间，卡洛琳的思绪渐渐飘回了十二年前，曾经的自己是一个对军旅生涯充满了激情的女孩，曾经亦接手过调查同性恋者的任务，也正是在此过程中，卡洛琳对这一群体有了逐渐的了解，她的性取向也在潜移默化之中被改变着。

1936年，牛顿的大量私人手稿被公开拍卖。这些充满神秘代码的古老稿件在被研究之后，这位世界上最伟大科学家的另一个不为人知的身份被公诸于世。谁能够想象，一位严谨周密的科学研究者竟是狂热的异教徒？您是否相信，地心引力竟是这位科学伟人证明上帝存在的理论？为什么牛顿要从事骗人的炼金术，而这件事蒙蔽了人们达三百年之久？请跟随我们翻开那些暗黄的卷宗，寻找最伟大科学家牛顿背后那些缺失的隐情……