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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

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

Documentary - tember 11th... Pearl Harbor... the assassination of JFK. Days that forever changed America. But the Kennedy assassination is different:...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jonathan Adams

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sam Rockwell

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

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

The seven wonder of our solar system are discussed: Enceladus' geysers, Rings of Saturn, Jupiter's Great Red Spot, the Asteroid Belt, Mars' Olympus...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Erik Thompson

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

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 Friday, the 13th of October, 1972, a charter plane carrying 45 passengers, including a college rugby team, vanished over the desolate,...

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: James Lentzsch

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

They started out as average, unexceptional men of their time. Fishermen, farmers, local magistrates. But their dedication to a prophetic Jewish...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Martin Sheen

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Herrmann

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast:

During a bizarre chapter of WWII, Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels decided to make a movie based on the sinking of the Titanic. This epic...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lee Williams

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

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

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Edward Herrmann

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

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