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In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Struan Rodger

Did you know that 1% of the white noise you see on old televisions is background radiation from The Big Bang? That the gold on a wedding ring comes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Corey Burton

WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Corey Johnson

Documentary - tember 11th... Pearl Harbor... the assassination of JFK. Days that forever changed America. But the Kennedy assassination is different:...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Adams

This captivating documentary from the History Channel recounts the development of iconic physicist Albert Einstein's provocative theory of general...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Albert Einstein

Follows the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Black athlete Jesse Owens won 4 golds against the backdrop of Hitler's racist Nazi regime in Germany.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Cheadle

THE GODFATHER LEGACY goes deep inside Francis Ford Coppola's epic saga about the Corleone crime family and reveals how the Academy Award-winning film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Bart

The riveting story of the first all-Black tank battalion to fight in US military history. Under General George Patten's command, the 761st fought...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Morgan Freeman

This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Will Lyman

Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revelers threatening people door to door looking for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phil Crowley

They started out as average, unexceptional men of their time. Fishermen, farmers, local magistrates. But their dedication to a prophetic Jewish...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Sheen

The Titanic is under a new threat. Resting at over 12,500 feet below sea level and 380 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, the most famous...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Cameron

The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Jacob Astor

As every day of Donald Trump's presidential campaign seemingly generates new headlines, this two-hour special examines the increasingly polarizing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jon Seltzer

Argentina, 1973. The return of democracy marks the beginning of a new countdown to the next coup d'état: on March 24, 1976, the worst...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Gastón Pauls

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Herrmann

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sam Rockwell

Discover the untold story of the events that occurred immediately after President Roosevelt received the call that Pearl Harbor had been attacked....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Alfred Gingold

Documentary takes a look at the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, a scroll created in 1880 BCE, and lost until 1887.

Genre: History

Cast: Omar Adam

Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most misunderstood events in history. Contrary to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Woodward