Through nonviolent and more direct methods, people rally to fight segregation in South Africa, and several states in the United ...
Charles Wheeler charts origins & decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the lives of poor pp...
This programme tells the story of father and son engineers John and Washington Roebling and their scheme to bu...
It took the rise of Al Capone and a crime wave that swept the nation to convince America that prohibition ...
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...
Charles Wheeler looks at disappointed hopes of black America from LBJ's 1965 Voting Rights Act to radicalism of Louis FARR...
What is globalisation and how does it affect us?
Martin Luther King is seen as an inspiration for peaceful protest campaigns. Andrew Roberts challenges this perception in a pro...
Lucy Worsley reveals the myths and deceptions in the story of America following the United States' eme...
Schools programme which looks at how people moved from slavery to freedom. How did former slaves acquire land? Where did they go when th...
Charles Wheeler looks at population growth in prisons and asks are penalties for drug offences too harsh?
Andrew Roberts highlights John F Kennedy's talent for making the public like him through his understanding that the key to power l...
Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.
Drama documentary covering the history of civil rights in the USA in the 50's and 60's. Today's story is about the legacy of slavery...
Charles Wheeler explores the social impact of Reaganism on today's America.
The story of French engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps' scheme to build a canal across Panama.
Material from the 50s newsreel documentary series Time to Remember tells the story of the media circus that surrounded gangsters ...
Delving into the final mystery of 9/11: a third tower at the World Trade Centre, which along with the Tw...
Twelve hours with the president on 9/11 - with direct testimony from President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and senior staff - as ...
(2/5) Charles Wheeler charts the origins and the decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the liv...
(3/5) Charles Wheeler looks at the disappointed hopes of black America from Johnson's 1965 Voting Rights Act to the radicalis...
A businessman is drafted into the war toilets and finds out what Americans did to their toilet paper in the war.
Robin Day hosts this special edition of the current-affairs programme, marking man's first steps on the surface of the moon. Julian...
A look at California's technology industry and its potential impact on the future. The Californian technology industry is by far the most advanced...
(4/5) Charles Wheeler looks at prison population growth and asks if penalties for drug offences are too harsh?
Lucy explains how the Soviet threat was talked up, resulting in the Titan 2 missile which coul...
In the 20th century, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts built and spent massive fortunes. Political dynasties s...
From humble beginnings, Hollywood became the world’s leading multi-billion dollar industry of glitz, glamour, money and fam...
To Americans the 1950s are the golden years. Having recovered from World War II, the life of the nation was on the up. The n...
A look at America in the 1960s - a decade of revolution that delivers the modern America we recognise today - in colour for ...
America lead the world in industrial innovation in the early 20th century.
Mount St Helens' in Washington State stood almost 10,000 feet high and in 1980 had not erupted for over one hundred years.
Biographical epic about the influential and controversial black nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster to his ministry ...
Lucy details the affect of McCarthyism, where liberal-leaning people were singled out and tried as ''co...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain travel to where the historic Apollo 11 ...
David Reynolds takes a fresh look at the embattled presidency of Richard Nixon as he ran it largely from his 'den' - a hideaway office across the road from ...
A vibrant snapshot of the 1980s through the eyes of New York City's African American and Latinx Harlem drag ball scene.
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...
20/07/1969 - The day Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the assassination of its youngest leader, John F. Kennedy.
The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the resignation of Richard Nixon.
The program follows Donald Campbell's fatal attempt to become the fastest man on water on January 4, 1967.
The program follows Chuck Yeager's first supersonic flight on October 14, 1947, and Donald Campbell's fata...
This program follows the day Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
Documentaries examining famous air disasters, including the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster in 1986.
How the commercial airplane has been used as a terrorist weapon: the Black September hijacking ...
This program covers the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg for espionage in 1953.
When Lyndon Baines Johnson assumed the office of president of the United States on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November...
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