The Birth of Israel
The Birth of Israel recounts the events that led up to the 1949 Israeli War of Independence, resulting in the creation of the Jewish state. It features interviews with those who personally experienced the war as soldiers and...
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The Story of India
The Story of India is a sprawling epic that traces the history of one of the oldest civilisations on the planet. Beginning with the earliest human migrations out of Africa and following the story through oral history and anci...
In Search of History: The Aztec Empire
In Search of History: The Aztec Empire presents a comprehensive profile of the ancient American people known as the Aztecs, from their beginnings as a group of around 1,000 people to their ascension as the dominant culture of...
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 explores ancient peopl...
Hitler in Colour
Hitler in Colour explores the rise and fall of the world’s most infamous tyrant, tracing his transformation from leader of the Nazi Party into a notorious dictator. Chronicling Adolf Hitler’s twelve-year rule as Führer of Ger...
Genghis Khan
Genghis Khan was one of the most powerful leaders of the Middle Ages. He ruled over the Mongols ruthlessly, building one of the largest empires in history. He was widely regarded as all-powerful and brutal. The Mongol emperor...
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the Final Solution
Auschwitz was one of the most infamous 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 Jewish p...
Stealing a Nation
Stealing a Nation recounts the expulsion of the indigenous population of the Chagos Islands in the 1960s and 1970s by the British government. Whitehall cleared the way for the US military to build an airbase on Diego Garcia,...
World War 1 in Colour
World War 1 in Colour is an episodic British documentary series that showcases many of the major moments of the Great War, making extensive use of computer-coloured wartime footage and featuring narration by Kenneth Branagh a...
The British Empire in Colour
The British Empire in Colour is a three-part series that chronicles the decline and legacy of the British Empire. As its title suggests, this retrospective tells much of its story through original colour film footage, accompa...
A History of Britain
A History of Britain is a fifteen-episode series that charts the history of the British Isles. Each episode runs for approximately an hour and focuses on a different period of British history. Threaded throughout the series i...