Working for their master’s dissertation, two history students investigate life in Ottoman Greece. A docudrama series that presents the course...

Myths die hard, and the history of the 20th century is no exception to this rule. Even today, we hold popular beliefs that we take for Evangelical...

National Geographic's landmark event series, The Greeks, brings together historians, archaeologists, actors, athletes, scientists and artists to...

Who was Homer, and what is the meaning of The Odyssey? In this documentary we follow the footsteps of Ulysses, also known by his Greek name...

In the fourth and fifth centuries, B.C., the Greeks built an empire that stretched across the Mediterranean from Asia to Spain. They laid the...

In the Eye of the Storm is a six-part documentary series about one of the foremost intellectuals and political figures of our age, Yanis Varoufakis....

It all starts on 1830, when young George Stephenson manufactures the first steam engine and the first railway networks are built soon after. Railway...

200 years after the Greek Revolution, this documentary revisits the key moments that led a nation to be reborn and reclaim its Hellenic identity,...

Historian Bettany Hughes has embarked on an epic, personal journey. Inspired by Homer's The Odyssey, she will sail the unpredictable Mediterranean...

Discover the lives of nine memorable couples, whose relationships were directly, indirectly or unexpectedly involved in Greek history. Along with...

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

Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.

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

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

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

An immersive, action-packed and discovery-led series following International teams of Egyptologists as they unearth the world's richest seam of...

Biography is a documentary television series. It was originally a half-hour filmed series produced for CBS by David Wolper from 1961 to 1964 and...

In this true-crime documentary, a cult expert and filmmaker infiltrate a polygamist sect to expose a self-proclaimed prophet and bring him to justice.

Travel around the world with author Dan Buettner to discover five unique communities where people live extraordinarily long and vibrant lives.

Explore the surprising things we know (and don’t know) about why people are the way they are through expert interviews, rare footage from...

Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of...

An insider's look at the engineering and scientific miracles behind the things that form the modern world.