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.

How, from 1974 to 1993, Totò Riina (1930-2017), supreme boss of the Corleone family, ruled by blood ...

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...

Africa: A Voyage of Discovery was a series about the history of Africa with Basil Davidson. It was p...

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

During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intellige...

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European cou...

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

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

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...

In 1960s Spain, a Holocaust survivor joins a group of agents seeking justice against the hundreds of...

Bangkok, 1969 — Amidst a time of national change and restricted freedom, when certain feelings remai...

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

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of ...

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