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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

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

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

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

As every day of Donald Trump's presidential campaign seemingly generates new headlines, this two-hour special examines the increasingly polarizing...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jon Seltzer

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

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

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

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

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: 75 Years Later is told entirely from the first-person perspective of leaders, physicists, soldiers and survivors.

Genre: Documentary

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Examining theories about the discovery of America long before Christopher Columbus' 1492 voyage by explorers from such places as China, Japan, Wales...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: James Lurie

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

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

One of the most controversial conflicts in U.S. history, the Mexican-American War erupted as President James K. Polk sought to extend the borders of...

Genre: History

Cast: Oscar de la Hoya

This is the untold story of the personal battles that gave rise to the multi-billion dollar video game industry. Brought to life by Academy...

Genre: Documentary

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Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Hazen

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

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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

In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together in secrecy to build America's first jet fighter....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Dennis Quaid

By 1314, through effort and intrigue, Scottish King Robert Bruce had captured every major English-held castle except Stirling. Now English King...

Genre: War

Cast: Adrian Bouchet