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.

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital o...
A three part series about women working in the British film industry during the 1950s.

Through the birth of cinema and the first images recorded in Spain, this series takes viewers on a j...

A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely...

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

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

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