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A six-night miniseries presenting the history of how the United States was invented, looking at the moments where Americans harnessed technology to...

The disappearance of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan on July 2, 1937 is one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of all time. Years later,...

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...

Documentary takes a look at the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, a scroll created in 1880 BCE, and lost until 1887.

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...

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...

Was life triggered by some event, like lightning hitting a pond full of amino acids? Earth was teeming with life billions of years before the...

An examination of the Battle of Gettysberg on both the personal and strategic level.

The story of Joseph Ratzinger from his place of birth in Marktl am Inn, Bavaria, Germany, to his appointment as reigning Pope in Rome.

This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from...

This captivating documentary from the History Channel recounts the development of iconic physicist Albert Einstein's provocative theory of general...

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...

As every day of Donald Trump's presidential campaign seemingly generates new headlines, this two-hour special examines the increasingly polarizing...

Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head...

Documentary examining the growing number of conspiracy theories surrounding the destruction of the World Trade Center that have been circulating...

Biblical disasters is a fascinating journey that crisscrosses the Holy Land in search of evidence supporting the contention that the scriptural sagas...

On September 11, 1941, the U.S. War Department broke ground on a new headquarters that would rise to become the ultimate symbol of the American...

In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together in secrecy to build America's first jet fighter....

Jim Thorpe was a Native American icon whose athletic prowess reshaped the landscape of 20th-century sports, defying the brutal challenges of racial...