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- The life stories of various historical figures and celebrities are told.
- Follows the history, mechanics, and operations of trains around the world.
- The story of the ill-fated ocean liner and the sinking that made it infamous.
- Thorough documentary of how the American Colonies rebelled against England and the personalities involved in the creation of a new nation.
- A historical compendium of the 42 men who have served as the chief executive of the United States taking us from George Washington to George W. Bush. Each segment discusses the highlights and often lowlights of the men who have served.
- Stylized historical hauntings presented by striking narration, and featuring period reenactments, interspersed with interviews of local witnesses and eloquent storytellers.
- A documentary series illustrating various episodes of the American Civil War.
- The names are familiar, the stories have been told - or so we think. This groundbreaking series brings four of the most famous engagements of the Civil War to life like never before. Unflinching, uncompromising and graphic, the images and stories presented here show these battles for what they were, with all their brutality, horror, devastation and desperation.
- A television program that chronicles famous shootouts from the perspective of both sides of the fight.
- Commentary from leading historians are combined with eyewitness testimony and dramatic reenactments of Civil War battles to tell the tragic story of the battle of Antietam, which was fought on September 17, 1862. Eleven hours of fighting produced over 23,000 Union and Confederate casualties, the bloodiest single day of the war.
- "The End is Near" is a cry that has echoed throughout human history. Every religion has stories of the end of the world, and believers in every era have prophesized that the time was at hand. So far, these predictions have come to naught, but a rash of unusual events and the rise of fundamental faiths have led to a new golden era of doomsayers.
- The Story of George Washington's most important military achievements and special personal moments of his life. The film sheds new light on old hero by portraying him as kind and brave man who changed the history of the world.
- A detailed history of the war between Chicago's North Side and South Side organized-crime gangs during the Prohibition era, leading up to the infamous "Saint Valentine's Day Massacre".
- The history of personal firearms.
- Alexander the Great conquered Greece, Turkey, most of Asia (present Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, parts of others) and Egypt in Africa, before age 32. Even now, his innovations in battle continue to be studied.
- The end of the Second World War in Europe, and the aftermath: war criminals to be brought to trial, stolen art treasures to be returned to their rightful owners.
- David McCallum hosts documentary dramatizing the lives and predictions of past and contemporary (for 1994) psychics, clairvoyants, and similar people who predicted the future.
- An examination of the 1941 air raid on the US naval base.
- In 1965, while bombing Laos, pilot Dieter Dengler crashes in the jungle and is subsequently arrested and tortured before being sent to a prison camp where he organizes a plan of escape.
- The modern myth of the UFO begins with a 1938 radio broadcast and continues through two major 1947 sightings, the "contactee" movement, abduction stories and crop circles.
- The premiere film for the new Visitor Center in Yosemite Valley. Six seperate shooting expeditions were undertaken over eighteen months. The film is slated to run in Yosemite Valley for the next 10 years. The 12-person crew hiked and climbed into Yosemite's most magnificent and remote regions in all four seasons.