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Ancient historyEgypt's Golden Empire (PBS Empires) - 2 ½ hours
Michael Wood's In Search of the Trojan War (BBC) - 6 hours
The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization (PBS Empires) - 2 ½ hours
Bettany Hughes' The Spartans (shown on PBS) - 3 hours
Michael Wood's In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great (BBC) - 4 hours
Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire (History Channel) - 10 hours
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 6 hours
The Roman Empire in the First Century (PBS Empires) - 3 ½ hours
Art history
Great Epochs of European Art: Art of the Ancient Greeks & Romans (German-made) - 2 hours
The Dark Ages: An Age of Light (BBC) - 4 hours
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (BBC) - 11 hours
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (PBS Empires) - 4 hours
Michael Wood's Art of the Western World - 9 hours
Civilizations (BBC, shown on PBS) - 9 hours
Religious history
The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha (PBS) - 2 hours
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites (PBS Empires) - 4 hours
Simon Schama's The Story of the Jews (shown on PBS) - 5 hours
Jerusalem: Center of the World (PBS) - 2 hours
Ancient Roads from Christ to Constantine (shown on PBS) - 5 ½ hours
The Life of Muhammad (BBC, shown on PBS) - 3 hours
Islam: Empire of Faith (PBS Empires) - 3 hours
Martin Luther (PBS Empires) - 2 hours
David Starkey's The Six Wives of Henry VIII - 3 hours
The Middle Ages
Byzantium: The Lost Empire (The Learning Channel) - 3 ½ hours
The Dark Ages (History Channel) - 1 ½ hours
Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire (History Channel) - 10 hours
Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall of an Empire (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 6 hours
The Roman Empire in the First Century (PBS Empires) - 3 ½ hours
The Germanic Tribes (German-made) - 4 hours
Art history
Great Epochs of European Art: Art of the Ancient Greeks & Romans (German-made) - 2 hours
The Dark Ages: An Age of Light (BBC) - 4 hours
Kenneth Clark's Civilisation (BBC) - 11 hours
The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance (PBS Empires) - 4 hours
Michael Wood's Art of the Western World - 9 hours
Civilizations (BBC, shown on PBS) - 9 hours
Religious history
The Buddha: The Story of Siddhartha (PBS) - 2 hours
Kingdom of David: The Saga of the Israelites (PBS Empires) - 4 hours
Simon Schama's The Story of the Jews (shown on PBS) - 5 hours
Jerusalem: Center of the World (PBS) - 2 hours
How the Celts Saved Britain (BBC) - 2 hours
The Life of Muhammad (BBC, shown on PBS) - 3 hours
Islam: Empire of Faith (PBS Empires) - 3 hours
Martin Luther (PBS Empires) - 2 hours
David Starkey's Henry VIII: Mind of a Tyrant (requires code-free DVD player) - 3 hours
David Starkey's The Six Wives of Henry VIII - 3 hours
The Middle Ages
Byzantium: The Lost Empire (The Learning Channel) - 3 ½ hours
The Dark Ages (History Channel) - 1 ½ hours
Michael Wood's In Search of the Dark Ages (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 6 hours
Vikings: The Real Warriors (BBC) - 3 hours
The Normans (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 3 hours
Vikings: The Real Warriors (BBC) - 3 hours
The Normans (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 3 hours
The Normans: The Complete Epic Saga (privately made) - 3 hours
The Crusades (BBC) - 3 hours
The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (History Channel) - 3 hours
The Wars of the Roses: A Bloody Crown (British-made) - 2 hours
The Crusades (BBC) - 3 hours
The Plague (History Channel) - 1 ½ hours (often available as bonus feature for The Dark Ages)
The Plantagenets (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 3 hours
Britain's Bloodiest Dynasty: The Plantagenets (British-made) - 4 hours
Britain's Bloody Crown (British-made) - 3 hours
The Stuarts & The Stuarts in Exile (BBC, this part is technically post-Middle-Ages, requires code-free DVD player) - 5 hours
History of the British Isles generally
Simon Schama's A History of Britain (BBC, with American financing) - 15 hours
David Starkey's Monarchy (U. K.) (British-made) - 17 hours
Michael Wood's Story of England (BBC) - 6 hours
Frank Delaney's The Celts (BBC) - 6 hours
Neil Oliver's A History of Scotland (BBC Scotland) - 10 hours
Huw Edwards' The Story of Wales (BBC Wales) - 6 hours
Fergal Keane's The Story of Ireland (BBC Northern Ireland) - 5 hours
Andrew Marr's Modern Britain 1901-2007 (BBC - requires code-free DVD player) - 10 hours
Specific countries and regions (outside of the British Isles)
Alistair Cooke's America: A Personal History of the United States (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 10 hours
Canada: A People's History (CBC and Société de Radio-Canada) - 32 hours
Australia: The Story of Us (Australian-made - requires code-free DVD player) - 6 hours
Africa's Great Civilizations (PBS) - 6 hours
Michael Wood's The Story of India (BBC) - 6 hours
Michael Wood's The Story of China (BBC) - 6 hours
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire (PBS Empires) - 2 ½ hours
History of the English language
Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English (British-made) - 6 hours
Famous reigning queens
David Starkey's Elizabeth (Elizabeth the First, British-made) - 3 hours
Catherine the Great (PBS) - 2 hours
Queen Victoria's Empire (PBS Empires) - 3 ½ hours
Early Latin America
In Search of History: The Aztec Empire (History Channel) - 1 hour
Breaking the Maya Code (PBS) - 2 hours
Michael Wood's Conquistadors (BBC, shown on PBS) - 4 hours
Colonial America
Secrets of the Dead: Jamestown's Dark Winter (PBS) - 1 hour
The Pilgrims (PBS) - 2 hours
The Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)
The War That Made America (PBS) - 4 hours
The American Revolution (my main posts and my other posts)
Overviews of the war
Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS) - 6 hours
History Channel's "The Revolution" - 10 hours
Rebels & Redcoats: How Britain Lost America - 4 hours
American Revolution biographies
Muffie Meyer's Benjamin Franklin (PBS) - 3 hours
Ken Burns' Benjamin Franklin (PBS) - 4 hours
George Washington the Warrior (History Channel) - 1 ½ hours
Founding Fathers (History Channel) - 3 hours
Founding Brothers (History Channel) - 3 hours
John and Abigail Adams (PBS) - 2 hours
Ken Burns' Thomas Jefferson (PBS) - 3 hours
Frontier exploration
Ken Burns' Lewis and Clark (PBS) - 4 hours
The French Revolution/Napoleonic Era
Versailles (French documentary, with episode about King Louis XVI - requires code-free DVD player) - 9 hours
David Grubin's Marie Antoinette (PBS) - 2 hours
The French Revolution (History Channel) - 1 ½ hours
David Grubin's Napoleon (PBS Empires) - 4 hours
The War of 1812 (North America)
The War of 1812 (PBS) - 2 hours - available online
Dolley Madison (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil, and the Presidency (PBS) - 2 hours - available on YouTube
The Mexican-American War
The U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848 - 4 hours - available on YouTube - link to first half
The Gold Rush - 2 hours
The American Civil War (my main posts and my other posts)
The Abolitionists (PBS) - 3 hours
Ken Burns' The Civil War (overview by PBS) - 11 hours
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS) - 3 hours
Civil War biographies
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (PBS) - 6 hours
Jefferson Davis (privately made) - 3 ½ hours
Ulysses S. Grant (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Various other topics
Michael Wood's In Search of Myths and Heroes - 4 hours
Ken Burns' The Congress (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Transcontinental Railroad (PBS) - 2 hours
Ken Burns' Not for Ourselves Alone; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (PBS) - 3 hours
Murder of a President: James A. Garfield (PBS) - 2 hours
Ken Burns' Mark Twain (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
New York Underground (PBS) - 1 hour
Crucible of Empire: the Spanish-American War (PBS) - 2 hours
The Boer War (British-made - requires code-free DVD player) - 1 ½ hours
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Ken Burns' Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (PBS) - 2 hours
Panama Canal (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Edison: The Father of Invention (PBS) - 2 hours
Tesla: Master of Lightning (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Citizen Hearst (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Ken Burns' Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (PBS) - 2 hours
Henry Ford (PBS) - 2 hours - available online
Walt Disney (PBS) - 4 hours
Silicon Valley (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
World War One
BBC's The Great War (interviews veterans) - 17 hours
CBS's World War One (the complete story) - 10 hours
PBS's The Great War (American Experience) - 6 hours
Biographies of major figures
Woodrow Wilson (PBS) - 3 hours
Coverage of particular portions of the war
The Storm That Swept Mexico (PBS) - 2 hours - available on YouTube
The Irish Rebellion 1916 (PBS) - 3 hours
Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World (PBS) - 2 hours
Influenza 1918 (PBS, American Experience) - 1 hour
Paris 1919: Inside the Peace Talks That Changed the World (Canadian-made) - 1 ½ hours
World War Two (my main posts and my other posts)
The Road to War (BBC) - 3 hours
War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin (BBC) - 3 ½ hours
Allied powers
ANZAC: Australians at War in World War Two (Australian-made) - 10 hours
Canada at War (Canadian-made, World War Two) - 6 hours
Ken Burns' The War (PBS) - 15 hours (focuses on United States in World War Two)
Biographies of Allied leaders
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (PBS) - 4 hours - available online
Eleanor Roosevelt (PBS) - 2 ½ hours
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (PBS, Ken Burns) - 14 hours
Winston Churchill (British-made) - 3 hours
Dwight D. Eisenhower (PBS) - 2 ½ hours
The Cold War (my main posts and my other posts)
The Cold War (CNN) - 18 hours
Korea: The Forgotten War (Timeless Media Group) - 5 hours
Ken Burns' The Vietnam War (PBS) - 18 ½ hours
Cold War political biographies (other)
John F. Kennedy (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Robert F. Kennedy (PBS) - 2 hours
Lyndon B. Johnson (PBS) - 3 ½ hours - available online
History of the British Isles generally
Simon Schama's A History of Britain (BBC, with American financing) - 15 hours
David Starkey's Monarchy (U. K.) (British-made) - 17 hours
Michael Wood's Story of England (BBC) - 6 hours
Frank Delaney's The Celts (BBC) - 6 hours
Neil Oliver's A History of Scotland (BBC Scotland) - 10 hours
Huw Edwards' The Story of Wales (BBC Wales) - 6 hours
Fergal Keane's The Story of Ireland (BBC Northern Ireland) - 5 hours
Andrew Marr's Modern Britain 1901-2007 (BBC - requires code-free DVD player) - 10 hours
Specific countries and regions (outside of the British Isles)
Alistair Cooke's America: A Personal History of the United States (BBC, requires code-free DVD player) - 10 hours
Canada: A People's History (CBC and Société de Radio-Canada) - 32 hours
Australia: The Story of Us (Australian-made - requires code-free DVD player) - 6 hours
Africa's Great Civilizations (PBS) - 6 hours
Michael Wood's The Story of India (BBC) - 6 hours
Michael Wood's The Story of China (BBC) - 6 hours
Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire (PBS Empires) - 2 ½ hours
History of the English language
Melvyn Bragg's The Adventure of English (British-made) - 6 hours
Famous reigning queens
David Starkey's Elizabeth (Elizabeth the First, British-made) - 3 hours
Catherine the Great (PBS) - 2 hours
Queen Victoria's Empire (PBS Empires) - 3 ½ hours
Early Latin America
In Search of History: The Aztec Empire (History Channel) - 1 hour
Breaking the Maya Code (PBS) - 2 hours
Michael Wood's Conquistadors (BBC, shown on PBS) - 4 hours
Colonial America
Secrets of the Dead: Jamestown's Dark Winter (PBS) - 1 hour
The Pilgrims (PBS) - 2 hours
The Seven Years' War (French and Indian War)
The War That Made America (PBS) - 4 hours
The American Revolution (my main posts and my other posts)
Overviews of the war
Liberty! The American Revolution (PBS) - 6 hours
History Channel's "The Revolution" - 10 hours
Rebels & Redcoats: How Britain Lost America - 4 hours
American Revolution biographies
Muffie Meyer's Benjamin Franklin (PBS) - 3 hours
Ken Burns' Benjamin Franklin (PBS) - 4 hours
George Washington the Warrior (History Channel) - 1 ½ hours
Founding Fathers (History Channel) - 3 hours
Founding Brothers (History Channel) - 3 hours
John and Abigail Adams (PBS) - 2 hours
Ken Burns' Thomas Jefferson (PBS) - 3 hours
Frontier exploration
Ken Burns' Lewis and Clark (PBS) - 4 hours
The French Revolution/Napoleonic Era
Versailles (French documentary, with episode about King Louis XVI - requires code-free DVD player) - 9 hours
David Grubin's Marie Antoinette (PBS) - 2 hours
The French Revolution (History Channel) - 1 ½ hours
David Grubin's Napoleon (PBS Empires) - 4 hours
The War of 1812 (North America)
The War of 1812 (PBS) - 2 hours - available online
Dolley Madison (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Andrew Jackson: Good, Evil, and the Presidency (PBS) - 2 hours - available on YouTube
The Mexican-American War
The U.S.-Mexican War 1846-1848 - 4 hours - available on YouTube - link to first half
The Gold Rush - 2 hours
The American Civil War (my main posts and my other posts)
The Abolitionists (PBS) - 3 hours
Ken Burns' The Civil War (overview by PBS) - 11 hours
Reconstruction: The Second Civil War (PBS) - 3 hours
Civil War biographies
Abraham and Mary Lincoln: A House Divided (PBS) - 6 hours
Jefferson Davis (privately made) - 3 ½ hours
Ulysses S. Grant (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Various other topics
Michael Wood's In Search of Myths and Heroes - 4 hours
Ken Burns' The Congress (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Modern Marvels: The Suez Canal (History Channel) - 1 hour
Transcontinental Railroad (PBS) - 2 hours
Ken Burns' Not for Ourselves Alone; Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (PBS) - 3 hours
Murder of a President: James A. Garfield (PBS) - 2 hours
Ken Burns' Mark Twain (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
New York Underground (PBS) - 1 hour
Crucible of Empire: the Spanish-American War (PBS) - 2 hours
The Boer War (British-made - requires code-free DVD player) - 1 ½ hours
TR: The Story of Theodore Roosevelt (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Ken Burns' Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip (PBS) - 2 hours
Panama Canal (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
The Great San Francisco Earthquake (PBS) - 1 hour
War of the Worlds (PBS) - 1 hour
Ken Burns' Hemingway (PBS) - 6 hours
History of American business
The Men Who Built America (History Channel) - 6 hours
The Gilded Age (PBS) - 2 hours
The Circus (PBS) - 4 hours
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
History of American business
The Men Who Built America (History Channel) - 6 hours
The Gilded Age (PBS) - 2 hours
The Circus (PBS) - 4 hours
Joseph Pulitzer: Voice of the People (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Edison: The Father of Invention (PBS) - 2 hours
Tesla: Master of Lightning (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
Citizen Hearst (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Ken Burns' Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio (PBS) - 2 hours
Henry Ford (PBS) - 2 hours - available online
Walt Disney (PBS) - 4 hours
Silicon Valley (PBS) - 1 ½ hours
World War One
BBC's The Great War (interviews veterans) - 17 hours
CBS's World War One (the complete story) - 10 hours
PBS's The Great War (American Experience) - 6 hours
Biographies of major figures
Woodrow Wilson (PBS) - 3 hours
Coverage of particular portions of the war
The Storm That Swept Mexico (PBS) - 2 hours - available on YouTube
The Irish Rebellion 1916 (PBS) - 3 hours
Lawrence of Arabia: The Battle for the Arab World (PBS) - 2 hours
Influenza 1918 (PBS, American Experience) - 1 hour
Paris 1919: Inside the Peace Talks That Changed the World (Canadian-made) - 1 ½ hours
World War Two (my main posts and my other posts)
The Road to War (BBC) - 3 hours
War of the Century: When Hitler Fought Stalin (BBC) - 3 ½ hours
Allied powers
ANZAC: Australians at War in World War Two (Australian-made) - 10 hours
Canada at War (Canadian-made, World War Two) - 6 hours
Ken Burns' The War (PBS) - 15 hours (focuses on United States in World War Two)
BBC History of World War II - 30 hours (technically a collection of different World War II documentaries)
The World at War (British-made, World War Two) - 23 hours (an actual unified history, which talks about the major powers on both sides)
Axis powers
The Nazis: A Warning from History (BBC) - 5 hours
The World at War (British-made, World War Two) - 23 hours (an actual unified history, which talks about the major powers on both sides)
Axis powers
The Nazis: A Warning from History (BBC) - 5 hours
Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II (BBC) - 1 ½ hours
Auschwitz: The Nazis and the "Final Solution" (BBC) - 5 hours
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (PBS) - 4 hours - available online
Eleanor Roosevelt (PBS) - 2 ½ hours
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (PBS, Ken Burns) - 14 hours
Winston Churchill (British-made) - 3 hours
Dwight D. Eisenhower (PBS) - 2 ½ hours
The Cold War (my main posts and my other posts)
The Cold War (CNN) - 18 hours
Korea: The Forgotten War (Timeless Media Group) - 5 hours
Ken Burns' The Vietnam War (PBS) - 18 ½ hours
Cold War political biographies (other)
John F. Kennedy (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Robert F. Kennedy (PBS) - 2 hours
Lyndon B. Johnson (PBS) - 3 ½ hours - available online
Black in Latin America (PBS) - 4 hours
Native America (PBS) - 3 ½ hours
Asian Americans (PBS) - 5 hours
The Jewish Americans (PBS) - 6 hours
The Latino Americans (PBS) - 6 hours
The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross (PBS) - 6 hours
Ken Burns' Jackie Robinson (PBS) - 4 hours
Ken Burns' Muhammad Ali (PBS) - 8 hours
The Long Walk of Nelson Mandela (PBS Frontline) - 2 hours
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I bought "The Rape of Europa" the documentary that inspired Monument Men, but haven't watched it yet. (Bought the book, too.)
ReplyDeleteInteresting - I'll have to look at it. Thanks!
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