Documentary

Renowned as the richest gold strike in North American mining history, the Klondike Gold Rush (1896-1899) set off a stampede of over 100,000 people on a colossal journey from Alaska to the gold fields of Canada's Yukon Territory. The Klondike Gold Rush is...

Learn all about this modern marvel of politics and engineering. Perhaps the most amazing achievement of the 20th century, the Panama Canal offered the world the opportunity to safely speed shipping through the new world. 2011/color/90 min/NR/fullscreen.

A mining operation in Colombia opened a window into an unknown period of the earth's history-where a world with giant creatures emerged. The biggest of them all was Titanoboa-a 43-foot snake, the largest that ever lived. New discoveries suggest that...

Historian Dr. Lucy Worsley travels back in time to the Tudor Court of England's Henry VIII to witness some of the most dramatic moments in the lives of his six wives. Combining drama based on eyewitness accounts and historical sources with Lucy's own...

American Masters: Wyeth DVD

Take a dazzling architectural journey inside those majestic marvels of Gothic architecture, the great cathedrals of Chartres, Beauvais and other European cities. Carved from 100 million pounds of stone, some cathedrals now teeter on the brink of...

Standing guard over the city of London for nearly 1,000 years, the formidable Tower of London has been a royal castle, a prison, a place of execution and torture, an armory and the Royal Mint. This program unlocks the doors to secret rooms, talks to the...

American Experience: Tesla DVD

Chasing Shackleton DVD

The New Horizons spacecraft, 4 billion miles from Earth, attempts to fly by a mysterious object known as Ultima Thule and achieve the most distant flyby in NASA's history. NOVA is embedded with the New Horizons mission team, following the action in real...

The guys who took out Osama bin Laden! Navy SEALSs which features four revealing films previously seen on the Discovery Channel, was directed by award-winning filmmaker Gordon Forbes III who lived beside and filmed the Navy's commando force for more than...

In this Emmy Award winning documentary by Ken Burns, follow Jack Johnson's journey from his beginnings as the son of former slaves, to his entry into the brutal world of professional boxing, where he was able to battle his way up through the ranks and...