In 1871, a journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the...

An investigation based on the largest leak of documents in British political history. The Labour Files examines thousands of internal documents,...

After years away from the CIA, Elizabeth McCord is pulled back into the political arena. The newly appointed Secretary of State is tough, fair, and...

See the real modern-day Amazonia through an exploration of the Amazon Basin, meeting a different group of people who live there in each episode.

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Great Patriotic War of 1812 against Napoleon's...

Henry David Thoreau helped define modern environmentalism and nonviolent resistance, yet his life has been obscured by myth. The author of Walden and...

The discovery of oil brought unprecedented economic growth to humanity. Initially, oil was available in large quantities and cheap – but in...

Drug trafficking was invented by a state: the United Kingdom. In the 19th century, the British Crown flooded China with opium to replenish its...

The dramatic inside story of 6 November 1956, the final day of the Suez Crisis. A day that changed Britain forever. Exactly as it happened - hour by...

A look at the role of slavery in the development of wealth in the United Kingdom

A documentary series that gives a historical account of the events of World War II, from its roots in the 1920s to the aftermath and the lives it...

World War II In Colour is a 13-episode television documentary miniseries recounting the events of World War II narrated by Robert Powell. The show...

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms...

Don Wildman unearths relics from the world's greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past. He examines each artifact to illuminate history's...

WWII in HD is a 10-part American documentary television miniseries that originally aired from November 15 to November 19, 2009 on the History...

The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of...

In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history....

Come one, come all to The Circus. This real-time documentary series pulls back the curtain on the current political stories, revealing the intense,...

A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally...

American Masters is a PBS television series which produces biographies on enduring writers, musicians, visual and performing artists, dramatists,...