Documentary, History

The history of the Final Solution phase of the Nazi Holocaust, particularly with the most infamous of the death camps.

Why did the United States become a global superpower? America The Story of Us is an epic 12-hour television event that explores the country's remarkable journey.

Thorough documentary of how the American Colonies rebelled against England and the personalities involved in the creation of a new nation.

Learn about 11 different historical mysteries that so many are fascinated by. Learn the difference between Myth and what really happened.

Gripping recreation of historic events using firsthand accounts and forensic details, including moon landings, Romanov assassination, Hiroshima, Mandela's release, JFK assassination, and Chernobyl.

Documentary-style series about the era of the dinosaurs, mixing real locations and CGI.

Using the latest digital technology, the era between the dinosaurs and man is superbly recreated by the BBC and Discovery Channel in another winning production from the coalition.

The final installment in the "Walking with" series is a 90-minute documentary about the evolution of life before the dinosaurs.

The great follow-up to 'Walking with Dinosaurs' and 'Walking with Beasts', presented by Professor Robert Winston, explains the story of human evolution.

Writer Geert Mak travels around Europe to visit the places where history was made. He speaks with eye witnesses, relatives and experts. One hundred years of European history in 35 episodes.

The history of nuclear weapons between 1945 until 1963.

Documentary about the rise and fall of one of the greatest military geniuses of modern times from his Corsican childhood to final exile in St. Helena.

This documentary tells the story of the Spanish expeditions in the early sixteenth century that conquests America. This 4-part series Michael Wood (historian) travels in the footsteps of the Spanish expeditions of Hernán Cortés whose conquests was one of the most cataclysmic events in Modern American history.

This documentary series charts the British Civil War which rocked the United Kingdom for forty years. We meet its most prominent persons such as King Charles I, John Pym and Oliver Cromwell.

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 located in St. Marks in Venice.

Describes the western world's most potent religion, Catholicism, and its determination to maintain power at any cost in medieval France, 15th century Spain, Renaissance Italy and even into the 19th century. Historians, experts and Church authorities advise on the handling of this controversial subject matter.

A docu-drama covering the rise and the fall of the Roman world, including the establishment of strong individual rule by Julius Caesar and the rebuilding of Rome under Nero.

A dramatized recreation of the destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum when Mount Vesuvius erupted in 79 AD.

"Last Stand of the 300" is a 2007 special that tells the tale of when in 480 BCE, a small number of Greeks stood against the might of the Persian empire at Thermopylae.

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with a foreign prince, which results in a decade-long battle that ends in the complete annihilation of an entire city. However, what grain of truth is there to this mythologicale tale of love and destruction?

Genghis Khan, ruthless leader of the Mongols and sovereign over the vastest empire ever ruled by a single man, was both god and devil - not just in the Middle Ages, but for centuries to come.

The Vikings were an ambitious, daring and frightening people who left an indelible mark on the British psyche. Yet archaeology has revealed very little about their time in Britain and even less about what happened to them afterwards. Archaeologist Julian Richards finds new evidence about what really happened during the dramatic period when Vikings roamed the seas around Britain. And in a ground-breaking genetics research project designed specially for the BBC series, internationally renowned geneticist, Professor David Goldstein, sets out to answer some of the most intriguing questions about the Vikings. Samples taken from around 2,000 people in Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe have been processed and the results are revealed during the series.

Viewers are invited on a natural history journey through three billion years.

Terry Jones presents the history of the medieval religious wars in the middle-east known as the Crusades.