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YouTube TV
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4.5
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The Vietnam War (2017)
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
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Hoopla
84
81
9.0
/25063/
84
/362/
79
/121/
4.3
/9333/

The Civil War (1990)
A documentary on the American Civil War narrated by Ken Burns, covering the secession of the Confederacy to the assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
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Amazon Prime Video
80
76
8.7
/3423/
85
/476/
70
/133/
cc age 10+

NOVA (1974)
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
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4.2
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The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)
Chronicles the lives of Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, three members of the most prominent and influential family in American politics. It is the first time in a major documentary television series that their individual stories have been interwoven into a single narrative. This seven-part, fourteen hour film follows the Roosevelts for more than a century, from Theodore’s birth in 1858 to Eleanor’s death in 1962.
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Hoopla
82
67
9.2
/5132/
84
/174/
74
/43/
4.4
/6150/

Baseball (1994)
The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in each era. Writers, historians, players, baseball personnel, and fans review key events and the significance of the game in America's history.
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Kanopy
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67
9.0
/6022/
79
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4.3
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The War (2007)
The story of the Second World War through the personal accounts of a handful of men and women from four American towns. The war touched the lives of every family on every street in every town in America and demonstrated that in extraordinary times, there are no ordinary lives.
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81
67
8.2
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78
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78
/50/
4.0
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86
/19/

Prohibition (2011)
The history of the rise, rule and fall of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution and the entire era it encompassed (1920-33). After nearly a century of activism, Prohibition was intended to improve the lives of all citizens by protecting individuals, families and society at large from the devastating effects of alcohol abuse; but paradoxically it made millions of people rethink their definition of morality.
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PBS
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8.7
/1917/
83
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83
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4.3
/1564/
100
/14/
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cc age 14+

The U.S. and the Holocaust (2022)
Inspired in part by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s “Americans and the Holocaust” exhibition and supported by its historical resources, this documentary series examines the rise of Hitler and Nazism in Germany in the context of global antisemitism and racism, the eugenics movement in the United States, and race laws in the American south.
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PBS
84
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8.1
/1828/
72
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73
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4.0
/2035/
93
/30/
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Hemingway (2021)
The visionary work and the turbulent life of Ernest Hemingway, one of the greatest and most influential writers America has ever produced. Interweaving his eventful biography with carefully selected excerpts from his iconic short stories, novels, and non-fiction, the series reveals the brilliant, ambitious, charismatic, and complicated man behind the myth, and the art he created.
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PBS
84
64
8.9
/1936/
79
/66/
73
/26/
4.2
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Country Music (2019)
Explore the history of a uniquely American art form: country music. From its deep and tangled roots in ballads, blues and hymns performed in small settings, to its worldwide popularity, learn how country music evolved over the course of the 20th century, as it eventually emerged to become America’s music.
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YouTube TV
75
61
8.8
/10330/
79
/151/
59
/116/
cc age 3+

Mister Rogers' Neighborhood (1968)
Mister Rogers' Neighborhood is an American children's television series that was created and hosted by namesake Fred Rogers. The series originated in 1963 as Misterogers on CBC Television, and was later debuted in 1966 as Misterogers' Neighborhood on the regional Eastern Educational Network, followed by its US network debut on February 19, 1968, and it aired on NET and its successor, PBS, until August 31, 2001. The series is aimed primarily at preschool ages 2 to 5, but has been stated by PBS as "appropriate for all ages". Mister Rogers' Neighborhood was produced by Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA public broadcaster WQED and Rogers' non-profit production company Family Communications, Inc.; previously known as Small World Enterprises prior to 1971, the company was renamed The Fred Rogers Company after Rogers' death.
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81
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8.6
/2546/
84
/175/
75
/48/
cc age 14+

Frontline (1983)
Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's goal is to extend the impact of the documentary beyond its initial broadcast by serving as a catalyst for change.
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78
55
8.3
/1501/
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3.8
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cc age 10+

Benjamin Franklin (2022)
Explore the revolutionary life of one of the 18th century’s most consequential and compelling personalities, whose work and words unlocked the mystery of electricity and helped create the United States.
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PBS
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8.7
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64
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52
/20/
4.2
/1217/
80
/15/
cc age 13+

The American Revolution (2025)
The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green Mountains to the swamps of South Carolina, from Indian Country to the Iberian Peninsula. In defeating the British Empire and giving birth to a new nation, the American Revolution turned the world upside-down. Thirteen colonies on the Atlantic Coast united in rebellion, won their independence, and established a republic that still endures. The American Revolution will present the story of the men and women of the Revolutionary generation, their humanity in victory and defeat, and the crisis that they lived through.
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79
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The Dust Bowl (2012)
Chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.
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PBS
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50
8.6
/2458/
78
/99/
69
/39/
cc age 12+

American Experience (1988)
TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world today.
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78
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8.6
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/83/
75
/30/
4.1
/2295/

Jazz (2001)
Jazz is a ten part series that explores the evolution – and the genius – of America’s greatest original art form, focusing on the extraordinary men and women who could do something remarkable – create art on the spot. Jazz celebrates their profoundly enduring, endlessly varied, and infinitely alluring music in the context of the complicated country that gave birth to and influenced it, and was in turn transformed by it.
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Hoopla
82
46
8.6
/1594/
75
/48/
81
/19/
4.2
/1446/
88
/9/

Muhammad Ali (2021)
Muhammad Ali brings to life the iconic heavyweight boxing champion who became an inspiration to people everywhere.
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7.5
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/24/
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Human (2025)
Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi reveals humanity's incredible story across 300,000 years of human evolution – and how the story is stranger and more surprising than ever imagined.
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81
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8.6
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4.1
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cc age 7+

The National Parks: America's Best Idea (2009)
Filmed over the course of more than six years at some of nature's most spectacular locales – from Acadia to Yosemite, Yellowstone to the Grand Canyon, the Everglades of Florida to the Gates of the Arctic in Alaska - “The National Parks: America's Best Idea” is nonetheless a story of people: people from every conceivable background – rich and poor; famous and unknown; soldiers and scientists; natives and newcomers; idealists, artists and entrepreneurs; people who were willing to devote themselves to saving some precious portion of the land they loved, and in doing so reminded their fellow citizens of the full meaning of democracy.
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4.0
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The West (1996)
The West, sometimes marketed as Ken Burns Presents: The West, is a documentary film about the American Old West. It was directed by Stephen Ives and the executive producer was Ken Burns. The film originally aired on PBS in September 1996.
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The Roku Channel
80
37
8.0
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/150/
84
/17/

The Mind of a Chef (2012)
Go inside the minds of some of the world's top chefs. Narrated by Executive Producer Anthony Bourdain, The Mind of a Chef is that rare and beautiful thing: an intelligent show about cooking.
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Hoopla
75
34
8.4
/845/
68
/58/
67
/10/
3.8
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84
/8/

The American Buffalo (2023)
The dramatic story of America's national mammal, which sustained the lives of Native people for untold generations, being driven to the brink of extinction, before an unlikely collection of people rescues it from disappearing forever. Ken Burns recounts the tragic collision of two opposing views of the natural world—and the unforgettable characters who pointed the nation in a different direction.
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The Roku Channel
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8.7
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cc age 12+

Finding Your Roots (2012)
Noted Harvard scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has been helping people discover long-lost relatives hidden for generations within the branches of their family trees. Professor Gates utilizes a team of genealogists to reconstruct the paper trail left behind by our ancestors and the world’s leading geneticists to decode our DNA and help us travel thousands of years into the past to discover the origins of our earliest forebears.
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PBS
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7.9
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Nazi Megastructures (2013)
In a quest for world domination, the Nazis built some of the biggest and deadliest pieces of military hardware and malevolent technology in history. This is the stories of the engineers who designed them and how these structures sparked a technological revolution that changed warfare forever.
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Hoopla
79
27
8.8
/1259/
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/33/
71
/19/
3.9
/622/

The Power of Myth (1988)
The Power of Myth is a television series originally broadcast on PBS in 1988 as Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth. The documentary comprises six one-hour conversations between mythologist Joseph Campbell and journalist Bill Moyers.
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PBS
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19
7.8
/728/
68
/32/
73
/15/

Civilisations (2018)
The story of art from the dawn of human history to the present day—for the first time on a global scale. Inspired by Civilisation, Kenneth Clark’s acclaimed landmark 1969 series about Western art, this series broadens the canvas to reveal the role art and the creative imagination have played across multiple cultures and civilizations.
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81
18
8.5
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/8/

The Story of India (2007)
For over two millennia, India has been at the centre of world history. But how did India come to be? What is India? These are the big questions behind this intrepid journey around the contemporary subcontinent. In this landmark series, historian and acclaimed writer Michael Wood embarks on a dazzling and exciting expedition through today's India, looking to the present for clues to her past, and to the past for clues to her future. The journey takes the viewer through majestic landscapes and reveals some of the greatest monuments and artistic treasures on Earth. From Buddhism to Bollywood, from mathematics to outsourcing, Michael Wood discovers India's impact on history - and on us.
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82
17
8.6
/832/
78
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82
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3.8
/319/

Chasing the Moon (2019)
An unprecedented look at the decade-long odyssey to land a man on the moon. This documentary pulls back the curtain on the familiar narrative of the moonshot, revealing a fascinating stew of scientific innovation, political calculation, media spectacle, visionary impulses and personal drama.
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PBS
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16
8.3
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Uranium: Twisting the Dragon's Tail (2015)
A stunning new documentary series exploring the incredible story of uranium, from its creation in an exploding star to its deployment in nuclear weapons, nuclear power, and nuclear medicine. It’s a journey across nine countries and more than a century of stories, to discover the rock that made the modern world. It’s part science, part history, and all epic adventure. Join physicist and YouTube phenomenon Dr. Derek Muller as he reveals the untold story of the most wondrous and terrifying rock on Earth.
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Hoopla
70
11
8.2
/215/
71
/23/
59
/13/

Big Pacific (2017)
Plunge into the Pacific with researchers and cinematographers and see the ocean’s rare and dazzling creatures in a way never before seen on television. The show examines an ocean that covers a third of the Earth’s surface.
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?
8.2
/14/
45
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America's Untold Story (2017)
The first permanent European settlement in the United States was founded two generations before the Pilgrims arrived in 1565—not by English Protestants, but by a melting pot of Spanish, Africans, Italians, Germans, Irish and converted Jews, who integrated almost immediately with the indigenous tribes. America’s Untold Story, from Secrets of the Dead, uncovers the story of America’s past that never made it into textbooks.
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67
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7.3
/472/
60
/12/
70
/1/

A Year In Space (2016)
An unprecedented 12-episode series following American Astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian Cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko on their record-breaking stay aboard the International Space Station.
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?
8.3
/1787/
77
/12/
4.0
/1065/

Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2005)
The story of Jack Johnson, the first African-American boxer to win a title and his struggle to live as a free man.
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60
?
6.7
/91/
55
/4/

Empire with David Olusoga (2025)
How did a small island once rule over a quarter of the world's population? This shared history still shapes us today - and billions of people are part of its story.
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?
7.4
/11/
100
/1/

Decoding the Universe (2024)
How big is the universe? What is it made of? Are we alone? Questions like these have inspired amazing discoveries that have transformed our understanding of the universe since the 1970s, shedding light on everything from exoplanets to black holes to the mysterious dark matter and energy that rule the cosmos. And closer to home, quantum physicists have discovered the weird laws that govern the subatomic world, unlocking amazing technologies – from the smart phone in your pocket to powerful new quantum computers taking shape in labs today.
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63
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7.8
/988/
53
/10/
73
/21/
3.6
/611/

Frank Lloyd Wright (1998)
Frank Lloyd Wright tells the story of the greatest of all American architects. Wright was an authentic American genius, a man who believed he was destined to redesign the world, creating everything anew. Over the course of his long career, he designed over eight hundred buildings, including such revolutionary structures as the Guggenheim Museum, the Johnson Wax Building, Fallingwater, Unity Temple and Taliesin. His buildings and his ideas changed the way we live, work and see the world around us. Frank Lloyd Wright’s architectural achievements were often overshadowed by the turbulence of his melodramatic life. In ninety-two tempestuous years, he fathered seven children, married three times, and was almost constantly embroiled in scandal. Some hated him, some loved him, and in the end, few could deny that he was the one of the most important architects in the world.
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?
8.3
/1212/
72
/15/
3.8
/634/

Mark Twain (2002)
Mark Twain is a documentary film on the life of Mark Twain also known as Samuel Clements produced by Ken Burns in 2001. Burns captures both the public and private persona of Mark Twain from his birth to his death. The film was narrated by Keith David and the voice of Mark Twain was provided by Kevin Conway.
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6.3
/22/
53
/3/

Sacred Planet with Gulnaz Khan (2025)
Examine the impact of climate change on sacred places around the world with journalist Gulnaz Khan. Meet faith leaders drawing on ancient wisdom and spiritual resilience to confront the crisis with hope and action in this powerful four-part series.
poster
72
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7.8
/138/
70
/7/
70
/2/

The Age Of Nature (2020)
Explore humanity’s relationship with nature and wildlife, as scientists and conservationists from all over the world examine ways we can restore our planet. This documentary series asks whether newfound awareness of nature could bring about a new chapter in the human story.
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YouTube TV
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8.1
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90
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Bugs That Rule the World (2025)
A four-part global investigation into insect declines, exploring their diversity and their critical roles on the planet. Scientists reveal the beauty of bugs, from pollinators to insect assassins to the tiny clean-up crews that purify the planet.
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7.7
/12/
10
/1/

Pati Jinich explores Panamericana (2025)
Pati begins her epic adventure at the top of Alaska and then travels along the Western Hemisphere to southern Alberta. She delves into migratory evolution, history, and identity as citizens of the Americas.
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7.7
/19/
70
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80
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Katavi Africa's Fallen Paradise (2025)
An extreme weather event hits Katavi, sparking conflict and alliances among hippos, crocodiles, and lions as they struggle for survival.
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60
/1/

Lost Treasures of Angkor: Ancient Laos Revealed (2025)
A team of archaeologists investigate one of the greatest hordes of treasure ever discovered. Their mission takes them to ancient temples deep in the jungles of southeast Asia, while aerial scanning targets new sites for excavation. Astonishing new discoveries are made as the team analyse the treasure and shed light on the origins of the civilisation that built the lost city of Angkor.
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Hoopla
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70
/1/

Great Migrations: A People on the Move (2025)
Explores the transformative impact of Black migration on American culture and society. From the waves of Black Americans to the North—and back South—over the last century to the growing number of immigrants from Africa and the Caribbean today, movement is a defining feature of the Black experience.
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10
/1/

Colonial House (2004)
Modern day participants attempt a recreation of daily life as it would have been in Plymouth Colony in 1628.
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20
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Critical Kingdoms - Stories of Hope (2023)
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Renaissance: The Blood and the Beauty (2024)
The greatest art works of all time - born of war and bloodshed - as rival artists Michelangelo, Leonardo and Raphael compete to craft beauty from chaos. Starring Charles Dance.


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