What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by...

It started with Lenin and ended with Gorbachev. In this three-part documentary we highlight the people and events that played key roles in the rise...

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women...

In the heart of Beijing lies the largest palace in the world, The Forbidden City. For five hundred years, it served as the home of the almighty...

China: The Making of a Nation is the story of the painful transformation of the vast Qing Empire into the Chinese nation after the 1911 revolution....

Recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.

Cuba's revolutionary story is one of much fervor. Fidel Castro had one objective: the liberation of a Communist Cuba. Castro's ability to form key...

An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.

Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.

A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act...

A series of standalone documentaries powered by the unparalleled journalism and insight of The New York Times, bringing viewers close to the...

TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.

This compelling series investigates the motives and m.o. of female murderers. While males are often driven by anger, impulse and destruction, women...

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

In a docuseries set at one of NCAA football's most fertile recruiting grounds, guys with red flags seek to prove their worth on the field and in...

James May takes a look at the 'peoples car'. Covering every form of cars for the masses - from the Beetle to the Kei Car, May looks at the many forms...

Don Wildman unearths relics from the world's greatest institutions to reveal secrets from the past. He examines each artifact to illuminate history's...