In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran...

Mister Sterling is an American television serial drama created by Lawrence O'Donnell that ran from January to March in 2003. It starred Josh Brolin...

Discover the shadowy world of political donations and fundraising 15 years after the Supreme Court's decision in the Citizen’s United case,...

See how our first ladies have defined presidencies, reimagined the White House, and left their mark on American 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,...

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

From executive producers Kevin Spacey and Dana Brunetti, CNN Original Series "Race for the White House" captures the drama of how a high-stakes...

Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently declassified evidence related to the assassination of...

For millions, the election of Barack Obama marked a new era of hope. This four-part series tells the story of how he tried to reshape America as told...

Revisit the most influential presidential campaigns of the last 50 years. From Jesse Jackson’s groundbreaking 1984 and 1988 campaigns to...

Powerhouse lawyer Jessica Pearson adjusts to the dirty world of Chicago politics.

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...

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

Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's...

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

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...

Host Guy Fieri takes a cross-country road trip to visit some of America's classic "greasy spoon" restaurants — diners, drive-ins and dives...

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

Set against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor "Pug" Henry is a career naval officer who,...

Twentysomething Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II....

Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.

Doctor Who Confidential is a documentary to complement the revival of the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. Each...