Chicago: City of the Century

The Machines That Built America

September 2025 •English

The stories behind innovations such as TV, radio, phones, airplanes, motorcycles and power tools as well as the inventors including Nikola Tesla, William Harley, Alexander Graham Bell, Duncan Black and Alonzo Decker.

The Past at Work

September 2025 •English

The birth and development of the Industrial Revolution is explored by visiting factories, mines, and other industrial relics where the modern world was made -- not by statesmen and philosophers, but by men, women and children with dirt on their hands.

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World

September 2025 •English

Seven Wonders of the Industrial World is a 7-part British documentary/docudrama television miniseries that originally aired from 4 September 2003 to 16 October 2003 on BBC. The programme examines seven engineering feats that occurred during the Industrial Revolution.

Maps of Britain

September 2025 •English

Britain is connected by miles of roads, canals, and railway. This series explores the history of how we get around this ancient island.

Inside the Factory

September 2025 •English

Paddy McGuinness and Cherry Healey get exclusive access to some of the largest factories in Britain to reveal the secrets behind production on an epic scale.

History Classroom: The Men Who Built America

September 2025 •English

Cornelius Vanderbilt, John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, J.P. Morgan, Henry ford – their names are synonymous with innovation, big business and the American Dream. These leaders sparked incredible advances in technology while struggling to consolidate their industries and rise to the top of the business world. The Men Who Built AmericaTM chronicles the connections between these iconic businessmen and explores the way they shaped the country, transforming the U.S. into a global superpower in just 50 years.

Walking Through History

September 2025 •English

Tony Robinson goes for a walk through some of Britain's beautiful and historic landscapes.

Enterprise

September 2025 •English

Half-hour program on the "real-life adventure" of big business. Newsman Eric Sevareid, who served as host, described the series as neither "chamber of commerce boosterism" nor anti-establishment; rather, "an effort to report how various industrial sectors actually work."

Industry on Parade

September 2025 •English

Becoming Evil: Serial Killers

September 2025 •English

This 7-part season is filled with expert interviews and in-depth portraits of some of America's most infamous killers including John Wayne Gacy, David Berkowitz, Richard Ramirez, James DeAngelo, Aileen Wuornos, Jeffrey Dahmer, Andrew Cunanan, Ted Bundy and many others.

Empires of Industry

September 2025 •English

Chronicling the trades and commodities that made America an industrial power: coal, shipbuilding, brewing, textiles and steel. Also: profiles of magnates such as Andrew Carnegie and Henry Kaiser.

Makeover! Dramatic Before & After

September 2025 •Japanese

Japanese home reform. Homes are chosen from viewers who write in explaining unique problems, like small space, broken or damaged home, no bathroom, no insulation, too old, not elderly friendly, etc. The show showcases some of the worst living conditions before, then goes through a reformation to modernize the home and meet the needs of the owners. Alias name is "Before After"

L'homme des bois

September 2025 •French

Lo que la verdad esconde: Caso Asunta

September 2025 •Spanish

This true crime series investigates newfound evidence and unanswered questions in famous criminal cases, such as the murder of Asunta Basterra Porto.

16 × Deutschland

September 2025 •German

Hitler's Last Stand

September 2025 •English

Nazi diehard and fanatics fight to the last man to stop Allied forces from freeing Europe, keeping an unrelenting grip on the naval bases, citadels and fortresses of occupied Europe.

Abenteuer 1900 – Leben im Gutshaus

September 2025 •German

Atomic Age Declassified

September 2025 •English

Taking viewers back to the Atomic Age of the mid-20th century by going on a mission to identify the endless possibilities of atoms as an energy source.

Mysteries of Apollo

September 2025 •English

New information reveals the secret story of the Apollo 13 rescue, and how America's best minds used innovative science and engineering to save the lives of three astronauts facing life-or-death on one of NASA's most dangerous missions.

Still a Mystery

September 2025 •English

Each episode re-examines a single crime case where unanswered questions still remain. Through original interviews those involved, the evidence is dissected and new theories are presented in a quest to uncover the truth.