History Movies

Beginning with a band of privateers under the command of John Paul Jones, the U.S. Navy evolved into the world's greatest sea power in the modern era....

Featuring some of the most dramatic combat footage ever recorded and interviews with highly decorated soldiers, this is a definitive history of the U....

Documentary from the USA. A documentary about the life of Masamune master samurai sword creator who lived in 13th century Japan.

LBJ and Vietnam offers an extraordinary inside view of a presidency in crisis and the personal torment of a man torn between completing the task at ha...

Looks at Hitler's plan for Germany's conquest of Europe and the wealth of secret associations that helped him.

It began with the Battle of Fort Sumter in 1861 and ended four years later with the surrender of General Robert E. Lee and the eradication of slavery...

From the first Pilgrim celebration to the Macy's parade, here are the familiar stories and little-known facts behind one of our most beloved holidays.

Take a privileged look inside the building that is part monument part command center and part luxury mansion - an executive residence that is the inte...

The History Channel explores the stories behind the many hundreds of women who disguised themselves as men and secretly enlisted to fight in the Union...

Eighty Acres of Hell reveals that the Union was more than capable of matching the Confederates atrocity-for-atrocity. While 12,000 prisoners entered C...

Did Hamilton really fire his shot in the air? Did Burr really intend to kill his long-time rival? Why did these two statesmen end up targeting each ot...

Explore a battle waged by secret agents and spies on both sides of the American Civil War, the disturbing tales of hidden conspiracies of terror that...

This is the never-before-told story of America's secret Nazi prison camps. German soldiers captured right off the battlefield were shipped to America,...

The history behind America's most popular beverages

A documentary describing the beginning of the Internet

ORGANIZED CRIME: A WORLD HISTORY travels the globe to get an insider's view of some of the most active, dangerous and diabolical criminal syndicates i...

Dr. Theodor Morell served as Adolf Hitler's personal physician from 1936 to 1945, often treating the Fuehrer with unconventional medicines and concoct...

Battle of Waterlooo-1815. The Compelling Story of the Bloody Conflict that shaped the World's Destiny.

See rare footage of test flights and meet the men who helped shape aviation history. A detailed look at the Soviet Union's efforts to conquer the ski...

Two thousand years after the last Egyptian mummies were crafted, ancient practice was revived in Russia and a ‘modern mummy’ was created in 1924. Russ...