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- Moving back to her native Netherlands after years of living in the United States, a teenage girl navigates the intricacies of Dutch high school life.
- In 13 episodes presenter Hans Goedkoop takes us back to the 19th century, in which a country came to be which we still know today - the start of the modern Netherlands.
- Because of the Corona lock down, a young couple is forced to live apart.
- Her bones must still lie somewhere under the Binnenhof: Jacoba van Beieren (1401-1436), Countess of Holland, Zeeland and Henegouwen, a woman of distinction. But her title and possession are disputed by imperious men. She fearlessly enters into battle at a time that we still know as that of the Hoekse and Kabeljauwse disputes. She has to give up a lot, but at the end of her life she gains something: love.
- It is etched in the Dutch collective memory: the gruesome murder of Johan and Cornelis de Witt in the disaster year of 1672. Anyone who reconstructs the events surrounding the lynching party is still amazed at what happened in The Hague that 20th of August. How is it that two such respected regents, who have spent nearly twenty years serving the Republic, are so dishonored?
- Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (1798-1872) is the political example of Prime Minister Mark Rutte. Thorbecke is the man who in many ways lays the foundation for the new Netherlands. And not only because of its much-vaunted Constitution. Thorbecke grows up in a poor family and is being groomed for something big by his ambitious father. How big, even his father cannot imagine.
- Waldemar and Eelco investigate the Dutch revolution at the end of the 18th century and chronicle the events leading up to the return of Willem I and the beginning of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- Eelco investigates King Willem I's use of his power while Waldemar tries to find out what kind of man Willem I is.
- Fifteen years after the foundation of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, a revolution leads to the independence of Belgium. Eelco and Waldemar investigate the revolution and the relationship between Willem I and Willem II.
- Lodewijk Napoleon gave the Netherlands its identity and set up many important institutions. Hans Goedkoop examines the ambitions plans and silent departure of the Netherlands' first king.
- The Netherlands under the reign of King Willem I was a period of investments but also of financial troubles. Hans Goedkoop discovers how one rich and influential widow, Johanna Borski, kept the country from going bankrupt.
- In a time when women are not permitted to work for money and are expected to obey their husbands and stay at home, Betsy Perk stands up for women's rights. Hans Goedkoop chronicles the life of this remarkable woman and her ideals.
- After years of oppression catholicism is on the rise in the 19th century. Hans Goedkoop examines the life and work of architect Pierre Cuypers and his important role in this catholic movement.
- At the end of the 19th century Enschede is one of the largest textile-producing cities in the world. Hans Goedkoop investigates the working conditions of the weavers and the roles the Van Heek and Stork families played in this industry.
- In the late 19th century theoretic physicist Hendrik Lorentz and paleontologist Eugène Dubois made important scientific discoveries. Hans Goedkoop discovers how Lorentz won a Nobel Prize and achieved fame, while Dubois fell into oblivion.
- Hans Goedkoop chronicles the life of Abraham Kuyper, founder of his own newspaper, university and political party. His influence is still visible today in the Dutch society, and even in the United States.
- At the end of the 19th century some people question if the industrial revolution has really brought progress. Hans Goedkoop examines the life of author Frederik van Eeden and his quest for a peaceful, simpler existence.