History documentaries

From Jared Diamonds Pulitzer Prize winning book, Guns Germs and Steel. This documentary traces human history and asks...

The Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire, or the Conquest of Mexico, is one of the primary events in the Spanish...

In order to understand the present, we have to know the past. History plays a huge role in our lives. It helps us...

We cannot imagine the world without television nowadays. Despite the internet slowly taking over, television is the...

Few civilizations have a more mysterious reputation than ancient Egypt. And after thousands of years, we still haven’t...

All you need to know about how sexuality was oppressed and demonized by the church, for both men and women. This is...

Having dog in the White House is nothing new. In fact, some may argue that has been a long tradition for the President...

Genghis Khan was the Great Khan and founder of the Mongol Empire. It became the largest contiguous empire in history...

The Byzantine Empire was created with the fall of Rome in the 5th Century, when the kingdom was divided into Eastern...

Hannibal did not care to waste the power of Carthage? Legendary victories were ingenious strategist, paradoxically,...

Let’s start from the beginning. The history of chocolate dates back more than 3,000 years ago. Chocolate was first...

What is Islam? Who is Muhammad? This is the first documentary part 3 narrated by Ben Kingsley about Islam and attempts...

Samurai are the most well-known class of people in Ancient Japan. The legend of Samurai goes so far, that even...

Machiavelli is widely considered as one of the most influential philosophers when it comes to politics. His grand...

The eerie ruins of Pompeii can be found near the Italian city of Naples nowadays. And they hold a special place in...

Sumer is the earliest known civilization in the historical region of southern Mesopotamia. It emerged during the...

The mummy dubbed The Unknown Man E was discovered in 1886 by Gaston Maspero, who was then serving as the head of...

The Nanking Massacre was an episode of mass murder and mass rape committed by Japanese troops against residents of...