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...
A major political, historical, human and economic fact of the 20th century, the Gulag, the extremely...
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration, from 1940 to 1944, duri...
It is now fifty years since the start of the 1960s – ten years of change, innovation, excitement and...
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...
South Africa, 1823. The Zulu Empire, headed by King Shaka, a brilliant but ruthless military strateg...
This two-part docuseries celebrates the musical and artistic renaissance that exploded in the Bay Ar...
The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our...
How, from 1974 to 1993, Totò Riina (1930-2017), supreme boss of the Corleone family, ruled by blood ...
During the 1950s, Helsinki was the focal point of the Cold War, as global powers and their intellige...
A chronicle of John F. Kennedy's life, including his youth, ascension into politics, presidency, and...
From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European cou...
A drama about the national resistance movement in Latvia after the Soviet occupation. Events take pl...