Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the High Middle Ages with Eleanor and get daughter-in-law Eleanor of Aquitane, through the Late Middle Ages with Isabella of France and Margaret of Anjou and finishing with Lady Jane Grey, Mary I and Elizabeth I.
In 1553, England’s first Queen, Mary I, takes the throne. The country is on the brink of chaos, and ...

‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...

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

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This dipl...

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...

We all know about Alexandria, one of the greatest cities of the classical world, with its great Libr...

This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-sevent...

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...

Arguably second only to Muddy Waters among the Mississippi Delta singers who traveled north and pion...

A short film depicting the execution of Mary, Queen of the Scots. Mary is brought to the execution b...

Gouge - a documentary tracing The Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yo...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

When Queen Elizabeth's reign is threatened by ruthless familial betrayal and Spain's invading army, ...

The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endle...