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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

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

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

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 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

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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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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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

This two-hour special reveals the complicated history, extreme politic, and rigid societal standards that have created a legacy of internal...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sung-Yoon Lee

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

The story of meteorology Isaac Cline and the 1900 hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas, killing 6,000 people. Based on the book by Erik Larson

Genre: History

Cast: Edward Herrmann

Explores the controversy surrounding the supposed haunting of Amityville's most famous house.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: David Ackroyd

Follows the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Black athlete Jesse Owens won 4 golds against the backdrop of Hitler's racist Nazi regime in Germany.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Don Cheadle

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

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

Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most misunderstood events in history. Contrary to the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Woodward

Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revelers threatening people door to door looking for...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Phil Crowley

As the United States recovered from the bloody aftermath of the Civil War, Congress passed the Reorganization Act in 1866, that created the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Blair Underwood