Biography

8 episodes

The year is 1717. Wealthy land-owner Stede Bonnet has a midlife crisis and decides to blow up his cushy life to become a pirate. It does not go well. Based on a true story. (more…)

4 episodes

Follows the political rivalries and romance of Queen Elizabeth II's reign and the events that shaped the second half of the 20th century. (more…)

The story of American scientist, J. Robert Oppenheimer, and his role in the development of the atomic bomb. (more…)

4 episodes

The story of Jimmy Savile's life from his working-class roots, to his rise to TV stardom as a BBC presenter, and his later years when he managed to keep his reign of sexual abuse concealed until after his death in 2011. (more…)

Follow the real life story of Sidney Poitier, the Oscar winner of 1964. (more…)

8 episodes

Follows the remarkable story of Miep Gies, a Dutch woman who risked her life to shelter Anne Frank's family from the Nazis for more than two years during World War II. (more…)

10 episodes

In Manhattan in the summer of 1979, a young man is arrested for a shocking crime, and an unlikely investigator must solve the mystery behind it before the true criminal strikes again. (more…)

Toronto Maple Leafs owner Harold Ballard — Canada's greatest showman – He didn't invent greed. He perfected it. (more…)

3 episodes

A British politician fakes his own death. (more…)

5 episodes

A five-part series that tells the true story of how Nixon's own political saboteurs and Watergate masterminds, E. Howard Hunt and G. Gordon Liddy, accidentally toppled the presidency they were trying to protect. (more…)