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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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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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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

Cast: Corey Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

This History Channel documentary traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in the 14th century to its incarnation as one of the largest empires...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Powers Boothe

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

Gallipoli from Above: The Untold Story is the true story of how a team of Australian officers used aerial intelligence, emerging technology and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nicholas Bell