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...
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, Professor Brian Cox and Dara O Briain travel to where the historic Apollo 11 ...
A deeply personal film that moves between accounts of the two-hour period when terrorists attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon and hijacked Flight 93 and...
Twelve hours with the president on 9/11 - with direct testimony from President Bush, Vice-President Cheney and senior staff - as ...
Biographical epic about the influential and controversial black nationalist leader, from his early life and career as a small-time gangster to his ministry ...
After black 14-year-old Emmett Till is lynched in Mississippi for offending a white woman, his grieving mother goes public in her fight for justice. Activist org...
Delving into the final mystery of 9/11: a third tower at the World Trade Centre, which along with the Tw...
From humble beginnings, Hollywood became the world’s leading multi-billion dollar industry of glitz, glamour, money and fam...
In the 20th century, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts built and spent massive fortunes. Political dynasties s...
America lead the world in industrial innovation in the early 20th century.
A look at America in the 1960s - a decade of revolution that delivers the modern America we recognise today - in colour for ...
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...
Robin Day hosts this special edition of the current-affairs programme, marking man's first steps on the surface of the moon. Julian...
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...
A look at California's technology industry and its potential impact on the future. The Californian technology industry is by far the most advanced...
Panorama hosts a discussion on the hydrogen bomb, with guests including physicist Joseph Rotblat, historian Bertrand Russell, the Archbishop of ...
Andrew Roberts highlights John F Kennedy's talent for making the public like him through his understanding that the key to power l...
Martin Luther King is seen as an inspiration for peaceful protest campaigns. Andrew Roberts challenges this perception in a pro...
Documentary exploring the Black Panther party, its culture and political awakening for black people, which weaves archival footage with the v...
Jonathan Freedland chairs a discussion on John F Kennedy, while producer Joel Surnow talks about the mini-series The ...
A Panorama special looking at the first 100 days of President Trump. Jeremy Paxman crosses the US for a wry and searching examination...
For forty years, conspiracy theories have raged over the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Now, 3D computer animation of the cri...
Charles Wheeler explores the social impact of Reaganism on today's America.
Charles Wheeler looks at population growth in prisons and asks are penalties for drug offences too harsh?
Charles Wheeler looks at disappointed hopes of black America from LBJ's 1965 Voting Rights Act to radicalism of Louis FARR...
Charles Wheeler charts origins & decline of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society programme, looking at how it changed the lives of poor pp...
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 ...
Lucy Worsley reveals the myths and deceptions in the story of America following the United States' eme...
Global creation and distribution of wealth, effect of fair trade and international debt.
What is globalisation and how does it affect us?
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...
The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the resignation of Richard Nixon.
The stories of a day that rocked the American presidency: the assassination of its youngest leader, John F. Kennedy.
This program follows the day Martin Luther King was assassinated on April 4, 1968.
20/07/1969 - The day Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
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.
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...
Schools programme which looks at how people moved from slavery to freedom. How did former slaves acquire land? Where did they go when th...
The story of French engineer Ferdinand De Lesseps' scheme to build a canal across Panama.
This programme tells the story of father and son engineers John and Washington Roebling and their scheme to bu...
Documentary on the assassination of Robert Kennedy in 1968, which illustrates arguments contrary to those which give Sirhan Sirhan as the lo...
American Indians have often been portrayed as true conservationists and guardians of nature, but is this view of them any more ...
When Lyndon Baines Johnson assumed the office of president of the United States on the assassination of John F. Kennedy in November...
Through nonviolent and more direct methods, people rally to fight segregation in South Africa, and several states in the United ...
Fifty years on from the promise of equality and the Civil Rights Act, this documentary reveals the moments where America had the chance ...
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