- Title: Secret History: The Lost Legions Of Varus
- Date: 23rd August 2001
- Summary: Documentary looking at the massacre of three Roman legions (numbering about twenty thousand men) in the forests of Northern Germany in 9 AD. Considers events leading up to the massacre and the deception and ambush that occurred and the impact it had on the Romans and Roman society. Also considers the legacy of this event on both Roman expansionism and German nationalism.
- Description:Telling the story of one of the worst military disasters in Roman History: three legions,lead by Varus,lured into the Teutoberg Forest and then wiped out by German tribes over a three-day running battle (imagine the beginning of Gladiator - except the Romans lose,big time)
- Broadcaster:Channel 4
- Collection: Channel 4
- Genre:Documentary and Factual
- Producer:Granada Television Ltd.
- Programme Episode:Episode 1
- Transmission Date:23/08/2001
- Rights:On Request
- Decade: 2000s