Follows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the...

A series of television drama programmes loosely based on Baroness Emmuska Orczy's series of novels, set in 1793 during the French Revolution. It...

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

Daniel Boone was a four-part television series that aired on Walt Disney Presents on ABC. Two episodes aired in December 1960 and two others in March...

A radical group of young men band together in secrecy to change the course of history and make America a nation.

Banished is a British period drama television serial created by Jimmy McGovern. The seven-part serial first aired on BBC Two from 5 March to 16 April...

Against the backdrop of the coming industrial revolution in eighteenth century Yorkshire, David Hartley assembles a gang of weavers and land-workers...

The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until...

Jeanne Poisson, a young bourgeois woman who became Madame d’Étiolles through a marriage arranged by her ambitious mother, sets out to...

Edwardian Farm is an historical documentary TV series in twelve parts, first shown on BBC Two from November 2010 to January 2011. It depicts a group...

Ever since her birth in Newgate Prison, Moll Flanders has survived by her cunning wit, and considerable powers of seduction. She goes through five...

Colorized historical footage in ascending order of World War 1. Not only the relatively known Flanders and France battles, but also the generally...

A six-part French documentary about the Second World War composed exclusively of actual footage of the war as filmed by war correspondents, soldiers,...

The First 48 follows detectives from around the country during these first critical hours as they race against time to find the suspect. Gritty and...

These are the true stories of the innocent and the unimaginable. Based on true events, A Haunting dramatises some of the scariest stories, revealing...

A historical exploration about the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 A.D. and the preserved Roman city it left behind.

In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history....

The story of three decades of war told through the eyes of various men who were its key players: Roosevelt, Hitler, Patton, Mussolini, Churchill,...

The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.

Major real-life air disasters are depicted in this series. Each episode features a detailed dramatized reconstruction of the incident based on...

The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.

Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) was a mediocre who rose to power because of the blindness and ignorance of the Germans, who believed he was nothing more...

A PBS documentary concerning Jared Diamond's theory on why there is such disparity between those who have advanced technology and those who still...