Movies: History

  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2009
    Art of War

    Art of War (2009)

    Art of War

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    Documentary on the main principles of Sun Tsu "Art of War" illustrated with examples from the second world war, the Vietnam war and the American civil war....

    Art of War
  • 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 Seabiscuit

    The True Story of Seabiscuit (2003)

    The True Story of Seabiscuit

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    The true story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of the team behind it but also those of their nation. Narrated by William H. Macy, featuring interviews and archive footage in both color and black ...

    The True Story of Seabiscuit
  • 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
  • 2022
    After Jackie

    After Jackie (2022)

    After Jackie

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    After Jackie celebrates the 75th anniversary of Jackie Robinson’s integration into Major League Baseball. Robinson opened the door for other African Americans to join the league and this documentary taps into key people and events in the aftermath....

    After Jackie
  • 2005
    The French Revolution

    The French Revolution (2005)

    The French Revolution

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    On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage followed, bringing about the end of feudalism and the rise of equality and a new world order. The Fr...

    The French Revolution
  • 2015
    Secrets of Einstein's Brain

    Secrets of Einstein's Brain (2015)

    Secrets of Einstein's Brain

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    The year 2015 marks the 60th anniversary of Albert Einstein's death... and the disappearance of his brain. Scientists over the decades have examined this priceless specimen to try and determine what made this seemingly normal man change the face of s...

    Secrets of Einstein's Brain
  • 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
  • 2014
    Battle of Kings: Bannockburn

    Battle of Kings: Bannockburn (2014)

    Battle of Kings: Bannockburn

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    By 1314, through effort and intrigue, Scottish King Robert Bruce had captured every major English-held castle except Stirling. Now English King Edward II would try to stop him - and subdue the Scottish rebellion forever. This is the story of the piv...

    Battle of Kings: Bannockburn
  • 2003
    Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific

    Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific (2003)

    Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific

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    This documentary is a captivating account of the defense of Wake Island by a small contingent of United States Marines and civilian contractors. From December 8th until December 23rd, 1941 the defenders thwarted an aerial attack and an attempted amph...

    Wake Island: Alamo of the Pacific
  • 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
  • 2004
    Isaac's Storm

    Isaac's Storm (2004)

    Isaac's Storm

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    The story of meteorology Isaac Cline and the 1900 hurricane that destroyed Galveston, Texas, killing 6,000 people. Based on the book by Erik Larson...

    Isaac's Storm