Popular Irish personalities trace their roots, and this journey through generations of ordinary lives reveals extraordinary stories.

Documentary series exploring the people, technology and battles behind the war between the states.

James May takes a look at some of the greatest developments of the 20th century.

Jeremy Clarkson's Extreme Machines was a six-part documentary series, originally broadcast on BBC Two in 1998. The series focused on presenter Jeremy...

The Mexico City Metropolitan Train has many stories to tell: from archaeological findings during its construction, its underground museums and...

Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be...

Exploring some of the world's most isolated and iconic tropical islands.

There are more than ten thousand monuments across the country that honour the war dead . But what of the bloody battles fought on our home soil, in...

From eradicating disease to selecting a child's traits, gene editing gives humans the chance to hack biology. Meet the real people behind the science.

Inside NASA's Innovations takes you behind the scenes with one of the world's leading technology innovators. Find out what it takes to collaborate...

Documentary on the 7 signatories of the 1916 Easter Proclamation.

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which...

Individual freedom is the dream of our age. It's what our leaders promise to give us, it defines how we think of ourselves and, repeatedly, we have...

Oliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.

Documentary series about the effect of advances in science and technology on western society in its philosophical aspects.

A new investigation driven by declassified CIA documents suggests a secret history of bitter rivalries, government conspiracies, Cold War, WWII...

Detective Sean Flynn and scientist Kate Finch are the latest recruits of The Global Frequency, a secret rogue spy agency that handles threats to...

The stories of the biggest, deadliest and weirdest creatures ever to walk the Earth, using the latest fossil evidence and immersive computer graphics.

Makoto 'Smile' Tsukimoto and his friend Yutaka 'Peco' Hoshino have been playing table tennis together since they were kids, but as they enter high...

It's 1986 - the year Maradona ends England's World Cup dreams in Mexico; the year Top Gun is the highest grossing film; the year over 3.4 million...

Carl Sagan covers a wide range of scientific subjects, including the origin of life and a perspective of our place in the universe.

Josh Futturman, a janitor by day/world-ranked gamer by night, is tasked with preventing the extinction of humanity after mysterious visitors from the...

High school mathlete Lindsay Weir rebels and begins hanging out with a crowd of burnouts (the "freaks"), while her brother Sam Weir navigates a...