Movies: History

  • 2008
    Life After People

    Life After People (2008)

    Life After People

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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, and plant life might be like if, suddenly, humanity no longer existed, as well as the effect humanity'...

    Life After People
  • 2011
    History of the World in Two Hours

    History of the World in Two Hours (2011)

    History of the World in Two Hours

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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 from a star that exploded 5 billion years ago? And, that we're connected to the salt water of the firs...

    History of the World in Two Hours
  • 2012
    WWII From Space

    WWII From Space (2012)

    WWII From Space

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    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 satellite view of the conflict, allowing you to experience it in a way that puts key events and tipping p...

    WWII From Space
  • 2010
    Alexandria: The Greatest City

    Alexandria: The Greatest City (2010)

    Alexandria: The Greatest City

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    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 become the world's first global centre of culture. The documentary also looks at the role of astronom...

    Alexandria: The Greatest City
  • 2012
    The Godfather Legacy

    The Godfather Legacy (2012)

    The Godfather Legacy

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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 and its sequels became one of the most acclaimed franchises in Hollywood history. Featuring iconic s...

    The Godfather Legacy
  • 2013
    Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe

    Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe (2013)

    Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe

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    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, Star Trek Into Darkness, hits the screen in a golden age of scientific discoveries. HISTORY is there, g...

    Star Trek: Secrets of the Universe
  • 2015
    The Making of Trump

    The Making of Trump (2015)

    The Making of Trump

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    As every day of Donald Trump's presidential campaign seemingly generates new headlines, this two-hour special examines the increasingly polarizing candidate's past. Included is rarely seen footage from Trump's interviews with Phil Donahue and his com...

    The Making of Trump
  • 2019
    Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works

    Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works (2019)

    Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works

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    In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together in secrecy to build America's first jet fighter. They were rule benders, chance takers, corner cutters-people who believed that nothing was impossible...

    Secrets in the Sky: The Untold Story of Skunk Works
  • 2024
    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics

    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics (2024)

    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics

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

    Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
  • 2010
    The Real Story of Christmas

    The Real Story of Christmas (2010)

    The Real Story of Christmas

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    Did you know that the quaint custom of Christmas caroling actually began with drunk and rowdy revelers threatening people door to door looking for food and liquor? Early versions of the heartwarming legend of Santa Claus described him as a horrible d...

    The Real Story of Christmas
  • 2010
    WWII in HD: The Air War

    WWII in HD: The Air War (2010)

    WWII in HD: The Air War

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    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 against the most powerful air force in the world, the German Luftwaffe....

    WWII in HD: The Air War
  • 2020
    Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck

    Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck (2020)

    Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck

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    The Titanic is under a new threat. Resting at over 12,500 feet below sea level and 380 nautical miles off the coast of Newfoundland, the most famous shipwreck in the world is being consumed by a colony of iron-eating bacteria. This slow and irreversi...

    Titanic: Into the Heart of the Wreck
  • 2021
    9/11: Life Under Attack

    9/11: Life Under Attack (2021)

    9/11: Life Under Attack

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    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 that fateful day....

    9/11: Life Under Attack
  • 2010
    After Armageddon

    After Armageddon (2010)

    After Armageddon

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    The plot centers around the Johnson family (consisting of Chris (Rob Hartz) and Ellen (Kathleen Cameron) Johnson, and their son Casey (Hy Rillero)) of Los Angeles, California, one of a small number of families to survive a global pandemic that, accor...

    After Armageddon
  • 2011
    Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After

    Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After (2011)

    Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After

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    Discover the untold story of the events that occurred immediately after President Roosevelt received the call that Pearl Harbor had been attacked. New evidence from the FDR Library reveals the true panic that gripped the White House and shook the nat...

    Pearl Harbor: 24 Hours After
  • 2009
    Journey to 10,000 BC

    Journey to 10,000 BC (2009)

    Journey to 10,000 BC

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    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 saber-toothed tiger and woolly mammoth were suddenly becoming extinct; and early humans began to inhabit ...

    Journey to 10,000 BC
  • 2003
    The True Story of Black Hawk Down

    The True Story of Black Hawk Down (2003)

    The True Story of Black Hawk Down

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    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 raid to kidnap lead terrorist Mohammed Farrah Aidid, who had been killing U.N. workers delivering fo...

    The True Story of Black Hawk Down
  • 2019
    9/11: Inside Air Force One

    9/11: Inside Air Force One (2019)

    9/11: Inside Air Force One

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    The story of 9/11 from a unique vantage point: inside Air Force One on its nine-hour journey from Florida, across the country, and finally home to Washington D.C. Featuring interviews with President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Chief o...

    9/11: Inside Air Force One
  • 2007
    1968 with Tom Brokaw

    1968 with Tom Brokaw (2007)

    1968 with Tom Brokaw

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    In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward a tipping point in politics. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy were assassinated, America suffered its bloodiest year in Vietnam and drugs ...

    1968 with Tom Brokaw
  • 2013
    Miracle Rising: South Africa

    Miracle Rising: South Africa (2013)

    Miracle Rising: South Africa

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    MIRACLE RISING: SOUTH AFRICA is the epic legacy of South Africa's political transformation that culminated in the first free and fair elections in April 1994. Recounted through the personal accounts of key figures, both local and international, the d...

    Miracle Rising: South Africa