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A History of Britain
A History of Britain is a fifteen-episode series that tells the history of the British Isles. Each episode is about an hour long and goes into a different period of British history. The entire narrative thread of the document...
A History of Christianity
A History of Christianity follows Diarmaid MacCulloch, a professor of history at Oxford University, as he travels to some of the most historically rich places on the planet and studies their impact on the growth, identity, an...
America Before Columbus
When most people think of pre-Columbian America, they picture an idyllic wilderness peppered with small native villages and settlements. America Before Columbus tells the story of what Columbus really discovered when he lande...
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire shines light on the key turning points of the Roman Empire with a focus on the western half of the empire. The docudrama covers notable figures, such as Caesar, Nero and Constantin...
Ancients Behaving Badly
Ancients Behaving Badly is an eight-part series that recounts the antics of rulers throughout history. Each episode looks at the actions of one ruler, educating the audience about the person through consultations with histori...
Andrew Marr’s History of the World
Andrew Marr’s History of the World is a BBC series journeying through 70,000 years of human history, from before the beginning of human civilisation up to the twentieth century. It tells the story of how the forces of n...
Architects of Ancient Arabia
The Architects of Ancient Arabia digs into the unexplored, deep past of Saudi Arabia as never seen before with teams of archeologists and a historian looking at fascinating discoveries. Academy Award winner Jeremy Irons narra...
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
Auschwitz was one of the most infamous of the Nazi Death camps. Through a combination of survivors’ interviews and historical re-enactments, this six-part series tells the story of how the Nazis attempted to exterminate the J...
Building the Great Cathedrals
The Gothic cathedrals are marvellous human achievements in architecture and artistry. Building the Great Cathedrals investigates how medieval architects could conceive and construct grand religious buildings such as the Beauv...
Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Cave of Forgotten Dreams is a 3D documentary by Werner Herzog covering a remote cave in France called the Chauvet Cave. This cave is home to many ancient human-painted images, tens of thousands of years old. The cave is fierc...
Engineering an Empire
Engineering an Empire is a History Channel series that covers the impressive architectural and engineering accomplishments of some of the world’s greatest civilisations. This fourteen-episode miniseries tackles ancient people...