HISTORY Specials

This two-hour documentary captures the amazing life and times of our nation's forgotten founding father: Alexander Hamilton.

Stonework experts Jim and Bill Vieira continue their hunt for the Lost Colony of Roanoke by analyzing the inscription on the mysterious Dare Stone against the 400-year-old record.

For centuries, the disappearance of 117 colonists from Roanoke Island has been this country's oldest mystery.

Comprised of two interviews with President Barack Obama conducted both before and after the 2016 Presidential election, The 44th President: In His Own Words.

This year marks the 75th Anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor. The truth behind Pearl Harbor is explored through new revelations from previously undisclosed documents.

This documentary special takes us on a journey through the "day that will live in infamy," by exploring the biggest stories and lesser known details that still surprise us.

How does a local militia run by a former criminal become the world's most feared terrorist organization--a self-proclaimed state.

While many agree that Nostradamus predicted some of the most tumultuous and destructive events in history.

Tells the extraordinary stories of three people who infiltrated white hate groups in an effort to bring them down from the inside.

Featuring best-selling author and History host Brad Meltzer, this program uncovers the mystery and search of the iconic Ground Zero 9/11 Flag.

History's Emmy Award-winning, and critically acclaimed documentary chronicled the terror of 9/11 in real-time. It is a minute by minute account of the catastrophe.

Featuring interviews with key political figures including President George W Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Bloomberg, and Dan Rather.

50 YEARS OF STAR TREK celebrates the phenomenon that is the Star Trek franchise from its origins as a primetime television series to the worldwide blockbuster it’s become.

Killer, drug smuggler, folk hero, Houdini of jailhouse escapes--the legend of Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is well known.

The greatest minds in history have pointed to the theoretical possibility of time travel.

The swagger. The outrageous pronouncements. The ego. The wealth. The hair. This is the story of how Donald John Trump became "The Donald".

There has been an enormous change in how this country views cannabis. Today, some states allow some form of medical marijuana and four have outright legalized it.

Every day our planet faces cataclysmic events that threaten our very existence. Whether from natural or manmade forces, rising from the earth or menacing from space.

How did a French prophet living in 16th century France predict so many modern day disasters?

Craig Beals, High School Science teacher and Montana's 2015 Teacher of the Year is on a lifelong mission to explore and reveal the planet's most surprising secrets.

The 90s holiday season began with cheer as Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev resigned on Christmas Day. Desktop computers, Tickle Me Elmo and the latest Beanie Baby toys.

The 80s were all about the Walkman, Cabbage Patch Kids, and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Relive the splendor of Clark Griswold's Christmas light display.

America's "Supermax" prisons are supposed to be inescapable fortresses, designed to keep the worst of the worst safely locked away from society.

In the 1970s we traveled to a galaxy far far away with our Star Wars action figures and visited Big Bird on Sesame Street.