This new series tells the compelling story of the Vietnam War, from the country’s dynastic history, the impact of Christian missionaries & French colonialism, Japan’s invasion during WWII and the rise of Ho Chi Minh. How the USA’s fear of communism started a relentless sequence of events that caused American troops to go in under President Kennedy in 1961, escalating under Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 when the nation found itself entwined in a war fought nightly on TV engendering a huge anti-war movement. By 1973 Nixon had resigned and America was forced to withdraw from Saigon on April 30th 1975.

On 23 August 1939, the world was shocked to discover that Hitler and Stalin, the most intractable of...

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...

Our cities, transformed a mere century ago to accommodate cars, now want to rid their streets of the...

It's about human history, how humans shaped the world we live in. A history through cultures and civ...

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

This thought-provoking documentary series examines the harrowing consequences of the Vietnam War, fr...

Professor of physics Jim Al-Khalili investigates the most accurate and yet perplexing scientific the...

From the first men in their flying machines to World War One, from the first Atlantic crossing to th...

Documenting the history of Vietnam, the lines about the war are more than the lines about peace. War...

The history of U.S. involvement is told in this 7 part documentary series featuring personal stories...

Afghanistan is at a crossroads between traditions and a contemporary lifestyle.

History as we generally know it is full of holes or half-truths, and a mother lode of juicy details ...

The Blues (2003) is a seven-part documentary series produced by Martin Scorsese that explores the hi...