The Kennedy Assassination: Beyond Conspiracy

Trump: A Second Chance? | Panorama

For the past two years, Panorama has been following some of Donald Trump's most ardent supporters. They tell Panorama why they want him to...

S1E10: 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. Kennedy.

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.

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...

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...

S1E10: The Resignation of Nixon | Days That Shook the World

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

S1E3: The Assassination of MLK | Days That Shook the World

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

4: Drugs and Punishment | Wheeler on America

Charles Wheeler looks at population growth in prisons and asks are penalties for drug offences too harsh?

Eisenhower and bombs | American History's Biggest Fibs with Lucy Worsley

Lucy explains how the Soviet threat was talked up, resulting in the Titan 2 missile which could trav...

S1E12: Donald Campbell | Days That Shook the World

The program follows Donald Campbell's fatal attempt to become the fastest man on water on January 4, 1967.

S2E8: Terrorism: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln | Days That Shook the World

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

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...

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...

2: 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 pp...

2: 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 bu...

3: America's Long March | Wheeler on America

Charles Wheeler looks at disappointed hopes of black America from LBJ's 1965 Voting Rights Act to radicalism of Louis FARRAKHAN.

5: The Reagan Legacy | Wheeler on America

Charles Wheeler explores the social impact of Reaganism on today's America.

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

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

Apollo 11: The Impact on Earth | Panorama

Robin Day hosts this special edition of the current-affairs programme, marking man's first steps on the surface of the moon. Julian...

California 2000 | Panorama

A look at California's technology industry and its potential impact on the future. The Californian technology industry is by far the most advanced...