Examine how ancient civilisations built some of the most magnificent structures on the face of the Earth, many centuries before the industrial...

Through new discoveries in science and archaeology, explorers take a look at the origins of the Vikings and how they influenced history.

Written and narrated by Dr. Ali Mazrui in the early 1980s and jointly produced by the BBC and PBS (WETA, Washington) in association with the Nigerian...

Series exploring a year through the archives with a look back at key moments in the media.

Epic History makes videos about the most dramatic and important stories from our past, from the rise and fall of empires to global conflicts and...

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

The series covers the life and work of leading science fiction authors of the last couple of centuries. It depicts how they predicted and,...

The Vasa was built for war but also to impress the enemy and display power. However, she sank on her maiden voyage, taking about thirty people with...

A group of history experts from London's King's College has created this documentary series that tries to assess the key political figures of WWII.

The history of mankind is a never-ending story of change, revolution, and evolution, but surely no span of a hundred years can claim to have changed...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

This documentary series, made in partnership with Vox, explain some of the world's current trends, from politics, to science to pop culture.

An FBI cold case that has laid dormant for 70 years, leads a group of world-renown investigators on the ultimate manhunt to finally answer 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.

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...

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