During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display little interest in the decline of the British...

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intelligence agencies coalesced in the small neutral...

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

In 1960s Spain, a Holocaust survivor joins a group of agents seeking justice against the hundreds of Nazis who fled to the nation to hide after WWII.

In this four-part BBC documentary, former Monty Python funnyman and renowned globe-trotter Michael Palin sets off from Gibraltar to travel across the...

The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In...

Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and...

Chronicle of the attack perpetrated by the Palestinian terrorist group Black September in the Olympic Village during the 1972 Munich Summer Games.

During the turbulent 19th century, a number of brilliant French artists developed the Romantic movement in Paris: writers Victor Hugo, Alexandre...

Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmental disaster ever recorded and one of the world'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...

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

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.

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...

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...

Go behind the scenes of the shows and movies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, following the filmmakers, cast and crew, and Marvel heroes every step...

Investigates a wide range of historically compelling topics and the mysteries surrounding each including the Titanic, D.B. Cooper, Roswell, John...

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

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...

Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It...

A rare look at warring animal clans battling for survival in a remote region of Africa, which is drying up after years of flood-soaked abundance.