A look back at the lives of some of the famous people who died in the past year.

Expert interviews and gripping reenactments combine to reveal the extraordinary life of Alexander the Great and his burning desire to conquer the...

What can the past teach us about the present? Come along as charismatic historian Michael Wood (The Story of India) travels the globe to trace the...

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...

While detectives search for clues among the living, veteran Dauphin County, PA, coroner Graham Hetrick uncovers secrets of the dead. Each episode...

John Romer recreates the glory and history of Byzantium. From the Hagia Sophia in present-day Istanbul to the looted treasures of the empire now...

Tutored by Aristotle, helpless witness to his father's assassination, and a brilliant, pioneering tactician, Alexander the Great had conquered the...

Part detective story, part true-life drama, long-running series explores some of the most iconic moments in history to debunk myths and shed new...

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

Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act...

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

Through bodycam footage, texts and interviews with loved ones, this documentary investigates the horrifying murder of four University of Idaho...

Real crimes, disease outbreaks and accidents around the world are solved by experts using scientific laboratory analysis which helps them find...

A series of standalone documentaries powered by the unparalleled journalism and insight of The New York Times, bringing viewers close to the...

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

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

An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.

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

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