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.

Traces the incredible trajectory of Brown’s life and career from a 7th grade drop-out arrested and j...

The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our...

During the Suez Crisis of 1956, two young clerks at the stuffy Foreign Office in Whitehall display l...

During the turbulent 19th century, a number of brilliant French artists developed the Romantic movem...

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, duri...

Dr Xand Van Tulleken and Raksha Dave investigate the Great Smog of 1952 - the deadliest environmenta...

Five young Thais resist the strict social norms of 1969, risking everything as their interwoven forb...

The minister, his mistress, and her lover the spy. The story of the woman at the centre of one of th...

Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital o...

The Goddard family is about to be torn apart by the arrival of Australian conscription during the Vi...

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of ...
It is now fifty years since the start of the 1960s – ten years of change, innovation, excitement and...

A behind-the-scenes drama and espionage thriller in Cold War-era England that centers on a journalis...

Summer 1944. Walter Proska is about to return to the Eastern Front when his train is blown up by par...

South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strateg...