The story of the formation of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor to the CIA. From the recruitment and...
Timeline - World History Documentaries
The Guy Fawkes Gun Powder plot takes viewers into the clandestine world of English Catholics in the early 17th century:...
The Roman empire was a time of power and brutality, fuelled by violent games and bloodbaths. However, it was also...
This touching documentary investigates the tragic stories of the 306 British & Commonwealth soldiers shot for acts of cowardice and...
The film features Belfast residents who saw the ship launched in May 1911 and who were also there when she...
The Lost Tomb of Jesus is a documentary which makes a case that the 2000-year-old "Tomb of the Ten Ossuaries"...
This week, we explore some of the penultimate battles of the second World War, including possibly the most horrific battle...
Tony Robinson and the team head to Dunwich. Coastal erosion has eaten away most of this once-bustling settlement, and before...
In the last programme of the series Francis focuses his attention on the Anglo-Saxon invasion. Sheep-farming archaeologist, Francis Pryor, presents...
A set of inscribed panels carved by the ancient Maya people of Central America inspired Dr Neil Brodie of Cambridge...
Discover the story of the steamship SS Ventnor, which, in 1902, sank off Hokianga, North Island, with the remains of...
Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. http://bit.ly/2O6zUsK Four hundred years ago, hundreds of...
There are 2.1 billion Christians on the planet—roughly one third of the entire human population. At the heart of their...
An examination of the mental battles waged between 20th-century leaders Winston Churchill and Franklin D Roosevelt during the first two...
Tony Robinson doesn't usually get to decide where the Team should dig, but in this episode he chooses his first...
This is the story of the world's first blue water sailors: the Austronesians and Polynesians who conquered the largest ocean...
How Britain transformed from a colonial power into a global financial power. At the demise of empire, City of London...
Check out our new website for more incredible history documentaries: HD and ad-free. http://bit.ly/2O6zUsK A look at the mythical roots...
The Sahara is the biggest desert on earth. It takes its name from the Arab word for "emptiness". In the...
Adele's Wish is the controversial story behind the world's most valuable painting, the Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I by Gustav...
