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 from a star that exploded 5 billion years ago? And, that we're connected to the salt water of the first oceans through the water in our bodies? Our human story is actually 14 billion years old and the clues are all around us. This CGI-driven special will tell the history of our world in two hours, an ambitious story that will give surprising connections to our daily lives. From the formation of the earth and the emergence of life, to the advance of man and the growth of civilization, it’s a rapid-fire view of our unforgettable story.

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de Fr...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

The NFL has staged 48 Super Bowls. Four photographers have taken pictures at every one of them. In K...

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of...

July 1969. America made history and sent the first humans to the moon. High-quality NASA footage and...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...