02: Blast Off! | James May’s 20th Century

S01E10: The Assassination of JFK | Days That Shook the World

The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the assassination of its youngest leader, John F. Kenn...

Till (2022)

After black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for offending a white woman, his grieving mother goes public in her fight for justice. Activist org...

Surviving 9/11

A deeply personal film that moves between accounts of the two-hour period when terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and hijacked Flight 93 and...

S01E03: The Assassination of MLK | Days That Shook the World

This program follows the day Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.

9/11: Inside the President's War Room

Twelve hours with the president on 9/11 - with direct testimony from President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and senior staff - as it cha...

Black Peoples of the Americas: 05: Civil Rights in the US | History File

Drama documentary covering the history of civil rights in the USA in the 50's and 60's. Today's stor...

The Black American Fight for Freedom

Fifty years on from the promise of equality and the Civil Rights Act, this documentary reveals the moments where America had the chance ...

KKK: The Fight for White Supremacy

Documentary investigating the Ku Klux Klan. Film-maker Dan Murdoch witnesses first-hand their secretive rituals and hears why their member...

S01E00: Apollo 11 Moon Landing | Days That Shook the World

20/07/1969 - The day Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.

03: Globalisation | World 2000

What is globalisation and how does it affect us?

Eruption at Mount St. Helens | Surviving Disaster

Mount St Helens' in Washington State stood almost 10,000 feet high and in 1980 had not erupted for over one hundred years.

02: The Road to Repeal | Prohibition: 13 Years That Changed America

It took the rise of Al Capone and a crime wave that swept the nation to convince America that prohibition...

03: Supremacy | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy Worsley reveals the myths and deceptions in the story of America following the United States' emergenc...

Malcolm X (1992)

Biographical epic about the influential and controversial black nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster to his ministry ...

George Floyd: A Killing That Shook the World | Panorama

Thousands of people have joined marches against racism after the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis. Clive Myrie ...

22: Star Wars: 1981-1988 | Cold War

Reagan's 1983 ''Evil Empire'' speech sets the tone for a more aggressive US posture against the Soviet Union, and the costly arms race is...

9/11 Ten Years On | The Conspiracy Files

A decade after the attacks on New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, the Conspiracy Files looks at why some people still question wh...

The Cuban Missile Crisis | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy unpicks Kennedy's lauded efforts in the Cuban Missile Crisis and considers whether his brav...

04: John F Kennedy | Walden on Heroes

Young and talented, JFK embodied a new spirit of optimism in postwar America and his assassination in 1963 immortalised him as a politi...

9/11 - The Truth behind the Third Tower | The Conspiracy Files

Delving into the final mystery of 9/11: a third tower at the World Trade Centre, which along with the Twin Tow...