History

Ambush warfare has been a decisive tactic for centuries, allowing smaller or weaker forces to defeat stronger opponents through surprise

When Black neighborhoods in scores of cities erupted in violence during the summer of 1967, President Lyndon Johnson appointed the

The wildly disparate yet fatefully entwined stories of assassin James Earl Ray and his target, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

From a con man’s son to America’s most powerful dynasty — how one family built a fortune through monopoly, scandal,

In one of the darkest periods in Egypt’s history, a man marked by the past is called to confront the

Journey with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. to Kenya, Egypt and beyond as he discovers the origins of man, the

In 1986, a chilling revelation sent shockwaves through the FBI’s Soviet counterintelligence section in Washington. Two prized Soviet informants, Valery

Forensic geologist Scott Wolter uncovers a mysterious link between the ancient serpent mounds of Scotland and North America. Was there

For a long time, the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was considered a diplomatic battle of no

On a crisp day in Dallas, 1963, the world changed forever. This documentary explores the life and death of President

When it comes to the mighty Empire of Rome, surely its greatest gift to posterity is the Colosseum that still

Iran is one of the earth’s final frontiers. It’s a country little visited by western travellers in recent years, yet