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...

03: Globalisation | World 2000

What is globalisation and how does it affect us?

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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...

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 ...

04: Trade, Debt and Aid | World 2000

Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.

The Cold War | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explains the post-war tensions between the US and Russia and the reasons why atomic bomb testing became...

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: Martin Luther King | Secrets of Leadership

Martin Luther King is seen as an inspiration for peaceful protest campaigns. Andrew Roberts challenges this perception in a pr...

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...

S02E08: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijackin...

Stories of immigration to America | American Voices: A History of America 1917-1941

The experiences of people who immigrated to America in the early 20th century.

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...