04: Drugs and Punishment | Wheeler on America

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

1929: The Great Crash

Over six terrifying, desperate days in October 1929, shares crashed by a third on the New York Stock Exchange. More than $25 billion in individual weal...

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...

By the People: The Election of Barack Obama

Film-makers Amy Rice and Alicia Sams tell the behind-the-scenes story of the passionate campaigners who helped a young African-Am...

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.

McCarthyism | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy details the affect of McCarthyism, where liberal-leaning people were singled out and tried as ''communis...

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...

The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy

For forty years, conspiracy theories have raged over the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Now, 3D computer animation of the cri...

Trump's First 100 Days | Panorama

A Panorama special looking at the first 100 days of President Trump. Jeremy Paxman crosses the US for a wry and searching examination of th...

02: The Brooklyn Bridge | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

This programme tells the story of father and son engineers John and Washington Roebling and their scheme to b...

06: The Panama Canal | Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

The story of French engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps' scheme to build a canal across Panama.

S01E10: The Resignation of Nixon | Days That Shook the World

The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the resignation of Richard Nixon.

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...

The Robert Kennedy Assassination

Documentary on the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, which illustrates arguments contrary to those which give Sirhan Sirhan as the lo...

01: Break-In | Watergate

In 1974, Richard Nixon, brought down by the Watergate scandal, became the only US president ever to resign. This programme looks at the break-in at ...

02: A Great Society? | Wheeler on America

Charles Wheeler charts origins & decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the lives of poor p...

02: Cover-Up | Watergate

Nixon's burglars are caught and the president himself is at the head of a cover-up that links the crime to the White House. In November 1972, five m...