As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
Archival material from the original NASA film footage – much of it seen for the first time – plus in...
From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when Ameri...
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
With access to recently-opened court files, Julie Etchingham reveals some of the Stasi's UK operatio...
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...
A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...
National Geographic's riveting effort recounts all 12 crewed missions using only archival footage, p...
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos f...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
A group of maverick scientists on a remote Australian sheep farm are the globe's only hope for obtai...
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...
A soldier is informed that enemies are headed towards his post, only moments before they arrive.
Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its cons...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...