History

These curated playlists explore great themes, events, or civilizations that shaped the course of History.

The larger task of History is to supply us with a collective memory of where we came from, to clarify our sense of identity, to provide a record of rights and wrongs. And yet these memories are in a constant state of flux, as historians bring new evidence to light and reinterpret the meaning of events and personalities. The "Big Questions" run through these playlists: why did things turn out the way they did? Where are we now headed?

4K History View All

King Tut: Forgotten Treasure 4k

52MIN

The Private Lives of the Tudors 4K

3 EPISODES

Shackleton's Captain 4k

1HR 25MIN

After Braveheart 4k

1HR 55MIN

Henry VII: The Winter King 4K

59MIN

Warrior's Way: The Original Superheroes 4k

6 EPISODES

Mont Saint-Michel: Resistance Through the Ages 4k

1HR 6SEC

The Legends of Santa 4k

51MIN

Aerial Odyssey: Germany from Above 4k

1HR 52MIN

Salyut 7: History's Most Daring Space Mission 4K

1HR 58MIN

In Search of Santa Claus

49MIN

Medieval View All

6 EPISODES

King Arthur: The Legend

49MIN

Castle Builders

3 EPISODES

6 EPISODES

Ancient Inventions

3 EPISODES

Breaking Barriers: Women of History View All

Calamity Jane: Legend of the West

52MIN

Armada: The Untold Story

3 EPISODES

The Last Days of Anne Boleyn

59MIN

Egypt's Lost Queens

59MIN

Pocahontas & John Smith: Love and Survival in the New World

52MIN

Sex Revolutions

2 EPISODES

The Strange Life of Dr. Frankenstein

54MIN

Scarlet Woman: The True Story of Mary Magdalene

59MIN

Notorious Women of the Bible

1HR 24MIN

Queens: The Virgin and the Martyr

9 EPISODES

Nadia Comaneci: The Gymnast and the Dictator

56MIN

Lise Meitner: The Mother of the Atom Bomb

52MIN

Elizabeth I: Killer Queen

47MIN

Farah Diba Pahlavi: The Last Empress

52MIN

Splendor and Misery of the Last Tsarinas

51MIN

Finding Traction: The Ultra Marathon Documentary

55MIN

Virago Women: Birth of the Women's Liberation Movement

56MIN

Ekaterina: Rise of Catherine the Great

10 EPISODES

Catherine the Great

12 EPISODES

Mathilde: The Affair to Break an Empire

1HR 48MIN

My Daughter, Anne Frank

1HR 29MIN

The Real Joan of Arc

1HR 34MIN

American Stories View All

Pocahontas & John Smith: Love and Survival in the New World

52MIN

The Pilgrims: Journey Into The Unknown

52MIN

Ellis Island: A History of the American Dream

53MIN

Calamity Jane: Legend of the West

52MIN

Spirit of the Pony Express

1HR 16MIN

Explosion: The War of 1812

59MIN

Nixon in the Den

49MIN

The Wheelchair President

2 EPISODES

Angry, White, and American

46MIN

Inside JFK's Assassination

53MIN

Jack London: An American Adventure

2 EPISODES

World War II View All

WWII Dambusters' Great Escape

46MIN

Bomber Boys with Ewan McGregor

1HR 29MIN

13 Hours that Saved Britain

48MIN

WWII in the Pacific

3 EPISODES

Camp X and the Birth of the CIA

2 EPISODES

Witness to a Massacre: Nanjing 1937

2 EPISODES

The Real Inglorious Bastards

51MIN

Operation Foxley: Mission Liquidate Hitler

49MIN

The Price of Empire

13 EPISODES

After the Holocaust

55MIN

WWII: China's Forgotten War

1HR 32MIN

The Day When: Pivotal Moments of WWII

4 EPISODES

Hedgerow Hell: The Fury of Normandy - 1944

1HR 17SEC

12 EPISODES

World War II: 1941 and the Man of Steel

1HR 30MIN

Memories of D-Day

50MIN

Action T4: A Doctor Under Nazism

53MIN

Last Secrets of the Third Reich: Nazi Gold Train

49MIN

Secrets of the Nazi Treasure

50MIN

The Bomber: A Tale of Survival Behind Nazi Lines

8 EPISODES

Silent Sacrifice: Stories of Japanese American Incarceration

2 EPISODES

June 22nd, 1940: The Sound of Surrender

53MIN

History's Verdict

10 EPISODES

Lives of the Pharaohs View All

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

38MIN

King Tut: Forgotten Treasure

52MIN

Ramesses II: The Great Journey

53MIN

Quest for the Lost Pharaoh

50MIN

The Story of Egypt

4 EPISODES

4 EPISODES

The Hidden History of Egypt

50MIN

Egypt's Lost Queens

59MIN

Alexandria: The Greatest City

48MIN

Khufu Pyramid Revealed

52MIN

North Korea: The Hermit Kingdom View All

Kim Jong Un: The Unauthorized Biography

53MIN

Heroes of the Forgotten War: The Battle of Kapyong

53MIN

North Korea: Hidden Revolution

47MIN

North Korea: The Great Illusion

49MIN

Classic Battles View All

2 EPISODES

Battlefields of the World Wars

8 EPISODES

6 EPISODES

World War II: Battles Won and Lost

8 EPISODES

52MIN

Trafalgar: The Greatest Battle in Naval History

52MIN

2 EPISODES

Broadside: Empires Collide

1HR 51MIN

The Price of Empire

13 EPISODES

Hedgerow Hell: The Fury of Normandy - 1944

1HR 17SEC

Blood On The Altar

49MIN

Thunder Run on Baghdad

2HR 11MIN

Heroes of the Forgotten War: The Battle of Kapyong

53MIN

Heroes of the Somme

59MIN

13 Hours that Saved Britain

48MIN

After Braveheart 4k

1HR 55MIN

Searching for Faith View All

The Bible: A History

7 EPISODES

Judgement Day: Images of Heaven and Hell

1HR 5MIN

3 EPISODES

Notorious Women of the Bible

1HR 24MIN

Scarlet Woman: The True Story of Mary Magdalene

59MIN

The Great War View All

The First World War: The Peoples Story

3 EPISODES

2 EPISODES

52MIN

When We Go To War

6 EPISODES

WWI's First Frontline Cameraman

52MIN

War Horse: The Real Story

46MIN

Promises and Betrayals

52MIN

Heroes of the Somme

59MIN

2 EPISODES

Doomsday WWI: Descent into Global Madness

3 EPISODES

Armistice: The End Game of WWI

55MIN

WWI: The Long Shadow

3 EPISODES

Impossible Peace: The Time Between World Wars

8 EPISODES

The Somme 1916: From Both Sides of the Wire

3 EPISODES

Rise of Mankind View All

The Evolution of Us

2 EPISODES

Toumai: The Oldest Living Ancestor

38MIN

First Footprints

1HR 43MIN

Symbiosis: Land of Neanderthals

54MIN

The Neanderthal in Us

53MIN

Survival of the Fabulous

46MIN

Neanderthal Apocalypse

1HR 28MIN

The Real Hobbit: Rethinking Human Origins

54MIN

Age of Terror View All

ISIS: Terror in Asia

2 EPISODES

The Woman Who Joined the Taliban

50MIN

Charlie Hebdo: Paris Under Attack

51MIN

The Terror Routes

2 EPISODES

Children of ISIS

52MIN

Adolf Hitler View All

Hitler's 911: The Secret War on America

52MIN

51MIN

Goering's Secret: The Story of Hitler's Marshall

54MIN

Last Secrets of the Third Reich: Search for Hitler's Bomb

52MIN

Operation Foxley: Mission Liquidate Hitler

49MIN

Hitler is My Neighbor

59MIN

Inside Hitler's Killing Machine

3 EPISODES

Hitler's People: A Portrait of the Third Reich

2 EPISODES

Hitler's Propaganda Machine

3 EPISODES

Grandeur of Rome View All

Caligula: Paranoia and Brutality in Ancient Rome

59MIN

Rome: Empire Without Limit with Mary Beard

4 EPISODES

Nero's Golden House

46MIN

Ascent of Civilization

3 EPISODES

The Hidden History of Rome

50MIN

Blood On The Altar

49MIN

Julius Caesar with Mary Beard

59MIN

Meet the Romans

3 EPISODES

Rise of the Modern Middle East View All

Promises and Betrayals

52MIN

The Terror Routes

2 EPISODES

Great Decisions in Foreign Policy

8 EPISODES