North Africa, 1954. The Algerian war of independence begins, a traumatic and extremely violent catastrophe that for eight long years will shake and finally overthrow the foundations of the colonial regime established by France in 1830.
Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital o...
Archival footage and interviews with historians mark this fascinating documentary on the 1950s, base...
During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display l...
Based on real characters and events, this haunting drama focuses on the personal sacrifice of a Prag...
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls b...
The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our...
A chronicle of John F. Kennedy's life, including his youth, ascension into politics, presidency, and...
How, from 1974 to 1993, Totò Riina (1930-2017), supreme boss of the Corleone family, ruled by blood ...
Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmenta...
An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, duri...
The minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy. The story of the woman at the centre of one of th...
In 1960s Spain, a Holocaust survivor joins a group of agents seeking justice against the hundreds of...
A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely...
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strateg...
It is now fifty years since the start of the 1960s – ten years of change, innovation, excitement and...
During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intellige...