Japanese American researcher Tetsuya Theodore Fujita, aka Mr. Tornado, created the Fujita scale of tornado intensity and damage and is credited with advancing modern understanding of severe weather phenomena.

Albert Lin seeks out the truth behind two great stories of the Bible. Could real events lie behind the parting of the Red Sea and the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah?

Egyptian tombs. The tomb digs are lead by DR MOSTAFA WAZIRI. The king of egyptian tombs.

Adventurer Ben Fogle is on a very personal pilgrimage. Travelling across Scotland's remotest islands, he discovers that their spiritual legacy still resonates today.

Documentary narrated by Dan Akroyd of paleontologists searching for dinosaurs and the evidence they left behind.

The story of RMS Titanic has been told in grand style many times: the monumental unsinkable ship, the scarcely-believable hubris of its owners and the dreadful events of 1912. Waking the Titanic is something new a living history t...

Celebrating the life of Robin Williams with interviews, tributes and clips from his career.

Amazing biography and introspective on the boy, the man, the husband, the father, the entrepreneur and the businessman as well as the inventor and his genius.

Uses case notes, ward diaries and memoirs from archives at the Royal London Hospital in Whitechapel, to bring real doctors, nurses and patients from a Edwardian London hospital back to life.

This series uncovers key stories of women that have made and changed human history from 10,000 BCE to the present day.

Investigate the reasons North Carolina, long seen as the most progressive state in the South, became home to the largest Klan organization in the country, with more members than all the other Southern states combined, during the 1...

The drama chronicles the emergence of HIV and Hepatitis C in Canada in the early '80s and the tragedy that followed when thousands were unnecessarily infected by tainted blood.

From PBS - Inspired by Timothy Egan's best-selling book, The Big Burn is the dramatic story of an unimaginable wildfire that swept across the Northern Rockies in the summer of 1910. The fire devoured more than three million acres ...

The historical account of outlaws Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, whose turn of the last century exploits made headlines, led them to be pursued by Pinkerton detectives hired by the railroads, and inspired a hit 1969 film.

The U.S. Navy's SEALAB, a pressurized underwater habitat complete with science labs and living quarters for divers, helps advance deep sea diving and rescue.

An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.

U.S. citizen William Morgan rises to power in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution.

Grammy award winning soul and jazz star Gregory Porter presents a 100-year celebration of the mystery, pain and joy that lies behind some of the greatest singing voices in modern popular music.

This latest entry covers the period from the early 1990's onward. Labor relations deteriorated badly in the early part of that decade leading to the players strike in August 1994. The Montreal Expos were the best team in baseball ...

As the new millenium dawns, Baseball is more popular and profitable than ever, but suspicions and revelations about performance enhancing drugs keep surfacing, calling the integrity of the game itself into question.

The pivotal year that essentially ushered in the true 1960s is explored.

A look at Walt Disney's career from early films to Disneyland to ideas for a new community (EPCOT) that was not realized before his death. A great insight into his motivations and values.

The life and legacy of Karl Marx and how it shaped the modern society of today.

A spot light on an often forgotten episode in British history: Nazi Germany's occupation of the British Channel Islands.