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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.

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

Race riots | Panorama

Panorama visits Cleveland, on the verge of race riots, to ask civil rights leader Martin Luther King whether his non-violent movement was now losing gr...

White Man Walking | Storyville

A Storyville documentary that follows white film-maker Rob Bliss as he walks 1500 miles through America's southern states wearing a Black Live...

03: 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.

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.

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...

Frost/Nixon (2008)

The story behind one of the most unforgettable moments in TV history - David Frost's interview with disgraced President Richard Nixon. Starring Michael Sh...

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...