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

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

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

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworl...

The charismatic Sir Lionel Frost considers himself to be the world's foremost investigator of myths ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

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

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disg...

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

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...