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

Tales of Irish Castles 4K

6 EPISODES

The Private Lives of the Tudors 4K

3 EPISODES

Warrior's Way: The Original Superheroes 4k

6 EPISODES

The Bible: A History 4K

7 EPISODES

9 EPISODES

3 EPISODES

Royal Britain: An Aerial History of the Monarchy 4K

52MIN

Waking the Titanic 4K

52MIN

The Eternal Notre-Dame 4K

54MIN

Ivan the Terrible 4K

52MIN

Samurai Sword: The Making of a Legend 4K

50MIN

King Tut: Forgotten Treasure 4K

52MIN

After Braveheart 4K

1HR 55MIN

Henry VII: The Winter King 4K

59MIN

Mont Saint-Michel: Resistance Through the Ages 4k

1HR 6SEC

The Legends of Santa 4k

51MIN

Aerial Odyssey: Germany from Above 4K

1HR 52MIN

In Search of Santa Claus 4K

49MIN

Elizabeth I: War on Terror 4K

47MIN

The Queen's Quest: Saving the Church From Silence 4K

59MIN

Renoir and the Girl with a Blue Ribbon 4K

52MIN

Medieval View All

Ancient Warriors

21 EPISODES

Warrior's Way: The Original Superheroes 4k

6 EPISODES

3 EPISODES

34 EPISODES

King Arthur: The Legend

49MIN

Castle Builders

3 EPISODES

Secret File of Marco Polo

50MIN

Ancient Inventions

3 EPISODES

Breaking Barriers: Women of History View All

Calamity Jane: Legend of the West

52MIN

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 4K

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

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

My Daughter, Anne Frank

1HR 29MIN

The Real Joan of Arc

1HR 34MIN

Perfect 36: When Women Won the Vote

25MIN

Anne Morgan: An American on the Front

52MIN

She-wolves: England's Early Queens 4K

3 EPISODES

A Tale of Two Sisters

7 EPISODES

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

Dick Winters: Hang Tough

55MIN

The Reagan Presidency

3 EPISODES

Anne Morgan: An American on the Front

52MIN

Easy Company: Heroes of WWII

56MIN

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

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 Decisions of WWII

4 EPISODES

Hedgerow Hell: The Fury of Normandy - 1944

1HR 17SEC

World War II: 1941 and the Man of Steel

1HR 30MIN

Memories of D-Day

50MIN

Long March to Freedom

3 EPISODES

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

11 EPISODES

Prisoner Number A26188: Henia Bryer

43MIN

D-Day at Pointe-du-Hoc

55MIN

Battle of Britain: Allies at War

44MIN

The Battle of Monte Cassino: Hitler's Soft Underbelly

1HR 30MIN

Jews in Vichy: From Exclusion to Deportation

59MIN

Remember Pearl Harbor

1HR 21MIN

Lifeline: Pearl Harbor's Unknown Hero

1HR 24MIN

Fighting the Blue

4 EPISODES

The Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Rise to Power

2 EPISODES

Journey Home to the USS Arizona

55MIN

Yalta's Last Secret

52MIN

Rommel: The Soldier, The Son, and Hitler

56MIN

Burma: Forgotten Allies

46MIN

Dick Winters: Hang Tough

55MIN

Eagles of Mercy

55MIN

Operation Oblivion: Behind Pacific Lines

1HR 1MIN 32SEC

Kokoda: The Spirit Lives

1HR 34MIN

Tony Robinson's VE Day: Minute by Minute

43MIN

Day of Days: American Stories

53MIN

Easy Company: Heroes of WWII

56MIN

Lives of the Pharaohs View All

King Tut: Forgotten Treasure 4K

52MIN

Mummies: Secrets of the Pharaohs

38MIN

The Story of Egypt

4 EPISODES

Ramesses II: The Great Journey

53MIN

Quest for the Lost Pharaoh

50MIN

Heracleion: Egypt's Lost City

59MIN

Eternal Egypt 4K

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: The Great Illusion

49MIN

Classic Battles View All

Civil War: The Untold Story

5 EPISODES

The First World War: The People's Story

3 EPISODES

World War II: Battles Won and Lost

8 EPISODES

War Above the Trenches

2 EPISODES

Generals at War

6 EPISODES

Ancient Warriors

21 EPISODES

The Devil Dogs: Hero Marines of WWI

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

Battlefields of the World Wars

8 EPISODES

Operation Foxley: Mission Liquidate Hitler

49MIN

Galahad: The Height of the Falklands War

46MIN

1944: Le Havre Under the Allies' Bombs

52MIN

Fighting the Blue

4 EPISODES

Battle of Britain: Allies at War

44MIN

Battle of Britain

3 EPISODES

Operation Dragoon: The Other D-Day

51MIN

Searching for Faith View All

The Bible: A History 4K

7 EPISODES

3 EPISODES

Notorious Women of the Bible

1HR 24MIN

Scarlet Woman: The True Story of Mary Magdalene 4K

59MIN

The Great War View All

The Last Voices of World War One

6 EPISODES

The First World War: The People's Story

3 EPISODES

The Devil Dogs: Hero Marines of WWI

52MIN

When We Go To War

6 EPISODES

WWI's First Frontline Cameraman

52MIN

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

War Above the Trenches

2 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

ISIS Terrorism 2.0

55MIN

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

Last Secrets of the Third Reich

11 EPISODES

Hitler's Propaganda Machine

3 EPISODES

Inside Hitler's Killing Machine

3 EPISODES

The Night of the Long Knives: Hitler's Rise to Power

2 EPISODES

Hitler's People: A Portrait of the Third Reich

2 EPISODES

Eva Braun: Hitler's Wife

54MIN

Hitler is My Neighbor

59MIN

Hitler's England

51MIN

Hitler's Children

51MIN

Hitler's 9/11: 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

Rommel: The Soldier, The Son, and Hitler

56MIN

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

ISIS Terrorism 2.0

55MIN

Great Decisions in Foreign Policy

8 EPISODES

The Temple Mount

3 EPISODES

Oman: The Treasure of Mudhmar

51MIN