Movies: History

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2003
    Stalin: Man of Steel

    Stalin: Man of Steel (2003)

    Stalin: Man of Steel

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    Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsr...

    Stalin: Man of Steel
  • 2006
    The Mexican American War

    The Mexican American War (2006)

    The Mexican American War

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    One of the most controversial conflicts in U.S. history, the Mexican-American War erupted as President James K. Polk sought to extend the borders of the nation to the Pacific, taking by force whatever territory stood in the way. This special, produce...

    The Mexican American War
  • 2000
    The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai

    The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai (2000)

    The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai

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    Made famous by the 1957 Hollywood movie, the bridges of the River Kwai emblematize one of the most misunderstood events in history. Contrary to the romanticized film version, the structures represent a period of terror, desperation, and death for ove...

    The True Story of the Bridge on the River Kwai
  • 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
  • 2013
    JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide

    JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide (2013)

    JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide

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    Documentary - tember 11th... Pearl Harbor... the assassination of JFK. Days that forever changed America. But the Kennedy assassination is different: 50 years after it happened, most Americans think we don't know who did it. Now History has conducted...

    JFK Assassination: The Definitive Guide
  • 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
  • 2010
    Sniper: Deadliest Missions

    Sniper: Deadliest Missions (2010)

    Sniper: Deadliest Missions

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    He's the deadliest weapon on the battlefield, but his next shot could be his last. Outnumbered - Outgunned - Behind enemy lines - What happens when the tables are turned and the hunter becomes the hunted? This is SNIPER: DEADLIEST MISSIONS. From the ...

    Sniper: Deadliest Missions
  • 2023
    761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

    761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers (2023)

    761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers

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    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 heroically throughout WWII and were the furthest east of all US troops in the European theater of war....

    761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers