The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...

Early IMAX documentary about the development of human flight.

Designed primarily for non-Turkish viewers, Tolda Örnek's documentary has a portentous narration by ...

On the eve of Memorial Day, a star-studded lineup will grace the stage for one of PBS' highest-rated...
BBC documentary about the rise of early electronic music, use of synthesisers and the work of the ra...

This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archiva...

When the Communist Party took over China in 1949, it engineered a massive propaganda effort to win o...

On a cold Christmas Eve, selfish miser Ebenezer Scrooge has one night left to face his past — and ch...
William Still was one of the most important, yet largely unheralded heroes of the Underground Railro...

Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding, suddenly believes that she...

In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local ...
This "March of Time" entry examines the many problems, both human and economic, that faced the Allie...

The Vietnam War and the helicopter, the two go hand in hand. The story of how the helicopter revolut...
The port of Hamburg has experienced and survived many things: epidemics, fires and floods, wars and ...

This two-hour History Channel special examines controversial new theories about the man who ruled th...

The documentary film created by the famous Russian scientist and poet Alexander Gorodnitsky, Belarus...

In 1898, a Minnesota farmer clearing trees from his field uprooted a large stone covered with myster...

The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two se...