Travel back to 1969 and uncover fascinating trends, people and events that forever changed the way Americans think about and have sex. Viewers will travel from the Playboy Penthouse in Los Angeles to San Francisco’s Hippie crash pads, the boardwalk in Atlantic City, a court room in Miami, and other spots across America to meet some of the women and men who found themselves caught between old values and new desires in 1969, and decided to do something about it.
Lucifer, Beelzebub, The Beast, Satan… He has been called many names and taken many strange different forms over the ages. So where does the concept of the traditional evil come from?
In the course of military history one of the most effective tactics ever to take the enemy by surprise has been THE RAID. In "HISTORY'S RAIDERS" some of the most exciting and decisive small unit actions have been minutely researched and uncovered with unprecedented access to over 500,000 hours of archive film, much of which will be seen in the series for the first time.
Did you know that people carry the legacy of the Titanic, and even the Big Bang, in their pockets every day — in the form of a cell phone? Or that a connection exists between Egyptian mummies and today’s ham and cheese sandwich? Surprising links between the past and the present are revealed as BIG HISTORY explores 13.7 billion years of history and asks questions like: Was the American Revolution driven in part by a biological thirst for caffeine? Crisscrossing through time and space, each BIG HISTORY episode uses cutting-edge visuals and graphics to reveal transformative relationships between science and history.
This History Channel series, hosted by Prince Andrew, Duke of York, explores the dramatic rise and decline of British naval power over the last 500 years. Since its creation under orders of King Henry VIII, the Royal Navy heralded Britain's emergence as a global superpower, presiding over what was the largest colonial empire in world history. This documentary series explores the evolution of British sea power from wooden galleons and ships-of-the-line, through to ironclad dreadnoughts and modern aircraft carriers. Discover how the Royal Navy was created during the reign of King Henry VIII, travel with Sir Francis Drake aboard his famous ship Golden Hinde in 1577, admire Admiral Nelson's triumph at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 and learn why so many illustrious ships were decommissioned at the end of the Falklands War.