Series · Documentary
Is It True That...? (2025)
★ 5.0 · 1 votes2 seasons · 63 episodesDocumentary2025
A New Way of Demystifying History
Did democracy actually originate in Greece? Was the plague the worst epidemic of all time? And did we really work harder in the past than we do today? Is it true that ...? questions what we think we know and takes another look at history.
- Writers
- Jakob Schmidt, Jannis Funk
- Network
- arte.tv
- Country
- Germany
- Language
- German
- First aired
- June 18, 2025
- Status
- Returning
- Original title
- Stimmt es, dass ...?
Episodes
0/29 watched- Episode 1: ...Democracy Was Invented In Greece?24 min · Jun 18, 2025
- Episode 2: ...The Plague Was the Worst Epidemic Ever?24 min · Jun 18, 2025
- Episode 3: ...We Used to Work More?24 min · Jun 18, 2025
- Episode 4: ...We Always Believed in God?25 min · Jul 9, 2025
- Episode 5: ...The Library of Alexandria Burned Down?24 min · Jul 16, 2025
- Episode 6: ...Vibrators Were Invented for Female Pleasure?19 min · Jul 23, 2025
- Episode 7: ...We Used to Die Younger in the Past?23 min · Jul 27, 2025
- Episode 8: ...Hitler Invented the Autobahn?24 min · Jul 30, 2025
- Episode 9: ...The Steam Engine Started the Industrial Revolution?23 min · Aug 13, 2025
- Episode 10: ...Bartering Was the First Form of Money?23 min · Aug 20, 2025
- Episode 11: ...Men Have Always Worn Trousers?23 min · Aug 27, 2025
- Episode 12: ...Beauty Standards Have Always Been the Same?24 min · Sep 3, 2025
- Episode 13: ...Julius Caesar Was Born by C-Section?24 min · Sep 10, 2025
- Episode 14: ...We All Believed the World Was Flat?23 min · Sep 17, 2025
- Episode 15: ...There Was No Hygiene in the Middle Ages?21 min · Sep 24, 2025
- Episode 16: ...Decadence Caused the Fall of Rome?24 min · Oct 1, 2025
- Episode 17: Education Serves the Common Good?24 min · Oct 8, 2025
- Episode 18: Pirates Were Always Bad?23 min · Oct 15, 2025
- Episode 19: ... Collective Ownership is Doomed to Fail?24 min · Oct 22, 2025
- Episode 20: ...Pasta Was Made in Italy?23 min · Oct 29, 2025
- Episode 21: Men and Women Have Never Been Equal?24 min · Nov 5, 2025
- Episode 22: ...We have always gone on strike?22 min · Nov 12, 2025
- Episode 23: ...Secret agents have no qualms of conscience?23 min · Nov 19, 2025
- Episode 24: ...We all used to speak the same language?24 min · Nov 26, 2025
- Episode 25: ...We used to live in harmony with nature?25 min · Dec 3, 2025
- Episode 26: ...Borders Have Always Existed?24 min · Dec 10, 2025
- Episode 27: ...Migrations were not as numerous in the past?22 min · Dec 17, 2025
- Episode 28: ...Childhood Is A Modern Invention?23 min · Dec 24, 2025
- Episode 29: ...We Have Always Eaten Meat?23 min · Dec 31, 2025
