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Did you know that 1% of the white noise you see on old televisions is background radiation from The Big Bang? That the gold on a wedding ring comes...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Corey Burton

MIRACLE RISING: SOUTH AFRICA is the epic legacy of South Africa's political transformation that culminated in the first free and fair elections in...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Christiane Amanpour

THE GODFATHER LEGACY goes deep inside Francis Ford Coppola's epic saga about the Corleone crime family and reveals how the Academy Award-winning film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Peter Bart

In this special documentary that inspired a two-season television series, scientists and other experts speculate about what the Earth, animal life,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Struan Rodger

The riveting story of the first all-Black tank battalion to fight in US military history. Under General George Patten's command, the 761st fought...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Morgan Freeman

At once a vast expanse of mesmerizing desolation and the crucible of human history, the Sahara Desert has been both the battlefield of empires and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael Carroll

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sam Rockwell

A unique and compelling account of the day that changed the modern world, captured by ordinary people who chose to pick up their cameras and film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George W. Bush

The very name conjures up images of the good life black tie affairs and high society balls. Yet their long saga proves that money is no guarantee of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Jacob Astor

In the beginning was sex. To the ancient cultures, sexuality, love and sex were inextricably connected with the creation of the earth, the heavens...

Genre: History

Cast: Philip Gardiner

Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Bettany Hughes

WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a...

Genre: History

Cast: Corey Johnson

Detailed and fascinating documentary telling the history of the famous German battleship of World War II. The urgent British hunt and the German...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: John Hillerman

Follows the incredible stories of three 8th Air Force airmen and Stars & Stripes reporter Andy Rooney during the bloody year leading up to D-Day...

Genre: War

Cast: Casey Affleck

This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Wendy Applebaum

10,000 B.C. was a time of cataclysmic change on Earth. Extreme climactic fluctuations hurled the planet into a minor ice age; megafauna like the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nicole Waguespack

On October 3rd, 1993, 120 Delta Force Commandos and Army Rangers were dropped into the heart of Mogadishu, Somalia. Their mission was a fast daylight...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Jeremiah

Through a unique architectural and engineering lens, “Rise & Fall: The World Trade Center” recounts the inspiring, true story behind an...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: D.B. Sweeney

Come back with us to Ancient Greece, 2,500 Years ago to the original Olympic Games. The ancient Games, like our modern Olympics, included champions...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Fred Napoli

Is building our own starship Enterprise possible? Will we ever travel between the stars as easily as they do in Star Trek? JJ Abrams' new feature,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: J.J. Abrams