Historical Documentaries
History is the greatest storyteller, and these documentary shows and films tackle true tales of culture, war and so much more, from ancient times to modern.
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Food For Hungry Brains
Washington
Theodore Roosevelt
Grant
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
World War II: From the Frontlines
The Great War
FDR
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
Thomas Jefferson
Titans: The Rise of Wall Street
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
Churchill at War
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Alexander: The Making of a God
Secrets of the Neanderthals
Einstein and the Bomb
The Last Czars
America: Our Defining Hours
Apollo 11
UnBroken
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black
African Queens: Njinga
Secrets of Great British Castles
The Martha Mitchell Effect
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Amend: The Fight for America
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
Julia's Stepping Stones
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Patria
Five Came Back
Making The Billion Dollar Code
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Cover-Up
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Grenfell: Uncovered
The Redeem Team
Apollo 13: Survival
Apollo 11
The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo
The Martha Mitchell Effect
The Last Days
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Best of Enemies
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Five Came Back: The Reference Films
Pelé
Katrina: Come Hell and High Water
The Twister: Caught in the Storm
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
Abraham Lincoln
American Godfathers: The Five Families
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
World War II: From the Frontlines
Turning Point: The Bomb and the Cold War
Greatest Events of WWII in Colour
Grant
Sunday Best: The Untold Story of Ed Sullivan
Waco: American Apocalypse
Becoming Led Zeppelin
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
Testament: The Story of Moses
The Truth About Jussie Smollett?
WWII in Color: Road to Victory
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake
FDR
American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
The American Experiment
Sitting Bull
Trial By Media
The Great War
Cover-Up
Miracle: The Boys of '80
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
Titans: The Rise of Wall Street
Thomas Jefferson
Hitler's Circle of Evil
The Harlem Hellfighters
Churchill at War
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
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Greatest Events of WWII in Colour
Turning Point: The Vietnam War
Hitler and the Nazis: Evil on Trial
Waco: American Apocalypse
WWII in Color: Road to Victory
The Truth About Jussie Smollett?
Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
Trial By Media
The Volcano: Rescue from Whakaari
American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing
Becoming Led Zeppelin
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
FDR
Testament: The Story of Moses
Churchill at War
The American Experiment
Grenfell: Uncovered
Titans: The Rise of Wall Street
The Great War
Cover-Up
The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist
Miracle: The Boys of '80
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan
Sitting Bull
Attack on London: Hunting The 7/7 Bombers
The Confession Tapes
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
Hitler's Circle of Evil
Captive
The Bus: A French Football Mutiny
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander: The Making of a God
Surviving Black Hawk Down
Wyatt Earp and The Cowboy War
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
The Harlem Hellfighters
The Stories Behind the Headlines
Aftershock: Everest and the Nepal Earthquake
The Real Bling Ring: Hollywood Heist
American Manhunt: The Boston Marathon Bombing
Attack on London: Hunting The 7/7 Bombers
Surviving Black Hawk Down
The Bus: A French Football Mutiny
Who Killed Jill Dando?
Spy Ops
The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth
Dig Deeper: The Disappearance of Birgit Meier
The Anthrax Attacks
Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
ARA San Juan: The Submarine that Disappeared
The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo
The Hunt for Veerappan
Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator
Who Killed Malcolm X?
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
11M: Terror in Madrid
Indian Predator: Murder in a Courtroom
Julia's Stepping Stones
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy
Patria
Examination of Conscience
Making The Billion Dollar Code
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Emicida: AmarElo - It’s All For Yesterday
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The American Experiment
Washington
Grant
Abraham Lincoln
American Godfathers: The Five Families
The Men Who Built America: Frontiersmen
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
Theodore Roosevelt
FDR
The Great War
Thomas Jefferson
Sitting Bull
The Booze, Bets and Sex That Built America
The Harlem Hellfighters
America: Our Defining Hours
Black Patriots
The Bus: A French Football Mutiny
True Crime Documentary Series
The Confession Tapes
Trial By Media
Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi
Who Killed Jill Dando?
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth
Who Killed Malcolm X?
Dig Deeper: The Disappearance of Birgit Meier
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!
Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
The Hunt for Veerappan
Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer
Indian Predator: Murder in a Courtroom
Wormwood
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy
Examination of Conscience
The Lost Pirate Kingdom
Thomas Jefferson
Age of Samurai: Battle for Japan
Captive
Hitler's Circle of Evil
Spy Ops
The Last Czars
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Bobby Kennedy for President
America: Our Defining Hours
Empire Games
Secrets of Great British Castles
Who Killed Malcolm X?
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Medal of Honor
Amend: The Fight for America
Wormwood
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy
SanPa: Sins of the Savior
Women Behind the Camera
The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
Julia's Stepping Stones
Conversations with Ruth de Souza
Black Barbie
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Meltdown: Three Mile Island
Sitting Bull
Pepsi, Where's My Jet?
Churchill at War
Wyatt Earp and The Cowboy War
Mysteries of the Faith
The Last Czars
Queen Cleopatra
Challenger
Roman Empire
Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi
This Is a Robbery: The World's Biggest Art Heist
The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth
Bobby Kennedy for President
Dig Deeper: The Disappearance of Birgit Meier
African Queens: Njinga
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
ARA San Juan: The Submarine that Disappeared
Empire Games
America: Our Defining Hours
House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
Secrets of Great British Castles
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
Who Killed Malcolm X?
The Hunt for Veerappan
Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator
Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Black Patriots
Medal of Honor
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
Amend: The Fight for America
Blood, Sex & Royalty
Indian Predator: Murder in a Courtroom
Wormwood
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy
Five Came Back
Terim
Inspiring Documentaries
Miracle: The Boys of '80
Return of the King: The Fall and Rise of Elvis Presley
Triumph: Jesse Owens and the Berlin Olympics
Untold: The Rise and Fall of AND1
Apollo 11
Black Patriots
Medal of Honor
BREAK IT ALL: The History of Rock in Latin America
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop
Pelé
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Julia's Stepping Stones
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Emicida: AmarElo - It’s All For Yesterday
Curry & Cyanide - The Jolly Joseph Case
Camp Confidential: America's Secret Nazis
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
Hitler - A Career
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist
11M: Terror in Madrid
Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld
Conversations with Ruth de Souza
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe
Patria
Pelé
Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Emicida: AmarElo - It’s All For Yesterday
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Challenger
The Last Czars
Rise of Empires: Ottoman
Bobby Kennedy for President
America: Our Defining Hours
Empire Games
D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?!
Secrets of Great British Castles
African Queens: Njinga
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America
Black Patriots
Amend: The Fight for America
Medal of Honor
Blood, Sex & Royalty
Five Came Back
Dig Deeper: The Disappearance of Birgit Meier
Vatican Girl: The Disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi
The Hunt for Veerappan
Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator
Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer
Indian Predator: Murder in a Courtroom
Nisman: The Prosecutor, the President, and the Spy
Five Came Back
Terim
Mysteries of the Terracotta Warriors
Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali
Secrets of the Neanderthals
ReMastered: Devil at the Crossroads
Einstein and the Bomb
UnBroken
Apollo 13: Survival
Untold: The Rise and Fall of AND1
Britain and The Blitz
Untold: Operation Flagrant Foul
Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate
ReMastered: Tricky Dick & The Man in Black
The Anthrax Attacks
Hitler - A Career
The Stringer: The Man Who Took The Photo
The Martha Mitchell Effect
Nail Bomber: Manhunt
Best of Enemies
The Last Days
What Would Sophia Loren Do?
Bank Robbers: The Last Great Heist
Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It
30 for 30: Catholics vs. Convicts
The Battered Bastards of Baseball
Five Came Back: The Reference Films
Ordinary Men: The "Forgotten Holocaust"
11M: Terror in Madrid
Cyberbunker: The Criminal Underworld
Pelé
Temple of Film: 100 Years of the Egyptian Theatre
Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski
Conversations with Ruth de Souza
Julia's Stepping Stones
Turn of the Tide: The Surreal Story of Rabo de Peixe
Brother Outsider: The Life of Bayard Rustin
Black Barbie
Patria
Gladbeck: The Hostage Crisis
Making Malinche: A Documentary by Nacho Cano
Emicida: AmarElo - It’s All For Yesterday
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