Programme de History Hit

On May 1, 1864, Union troops under Sherman clashed with Confederates at Kennesaw Mountain in Cheatham Hill.

Dan Snow explores George Washington's role in starting the Seven Years War, the first global conflict.

Joseph Stalin, a Georgian revolutionary and Soviet political leader, is known for his life

Vladimir Lenin, a successful educator and public school overseer in Russia

Diktators often seek power, restrict liberties, and lead to corruption, with countries like Africa

The film offers a psychological profile of Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro

The 1979 Iranian Revolution, led by Khomeini, imposed the veil and sparked a fight for freedom.

The Tea Party sparked the American Revolution, driven by politics, trade, and colonial mismanagement.

The Civil War united the U.S. against British rule despite contradictions between democracy and slavery.

The Civil War was a two-front conflict, with Confederate forces influencing the West.

President Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation granted freedom to over 3 million slaves in rebelling states.

Tristan Hughes speaks to the team responsible for the discovery of a 5000 year-old chalk cylinder.

Diktators often seek power, restrict liberties, and lead to corruption, with countries like Africa

After WWII, the USSR and USA divide Europe in a battle for power and influence.

The Korean War erupts as nuclear tensions grow between the USSR and USA.

Castro rises in Cuba as Sputnik launches and the Berlin Wall divides Europe.

Cuba, Prague, and Vietnam push the Cold War closer to global conflict.

Coups and civil wars spread as the USSR and USA pursue fragile nuclear peace.

Afghanistan becomes a Cold War battlefield between Soviet forces and the Mujahideen.

Reagan invades Grenada after Maurice Bishop's revolution topples a US-backed regime.

Discover the B-36, a long range nuclear bomber aircraft used in World War II and the Cold War.

A closer look at two of WW2's most terrifying and influential war machines.