historical epic documentaries

 

🏛️ 100 Historical Epics Documentaries

Ancient Civilizations & Empires

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• Egypt’s Golden Empire

• Rome: Rise and Fall of an Empire

• The Roman Empire in the First Century

• Ancient Rome: The Rise and Fall

• The Greeks: Crucible of Civilization

• The Persian Empire

• Engineering an Empire

• The Story of India

• The Story of China

Medieval & Renaissance Epics

• The Dark Ages: An Age of Light

• The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross

• The Normans

• The Plantagenets

• The Hundred Years’ War

• The Medici: Godfathers of the Renaissance

• Secrets of the Castle

• The Vikings

• Barbarians Rising

• The Templars: The Rise and Fall

Empires of the East

• The Mongol Empire

• Genghis Khan: Rise of the Conqueror

• The Silk Road

• The Story of Japan

• Samurai: Behind the Blade

• The Last Samurai: The True Story

• The Forbidden City

• The Qing Dynasty

• The Khmer Empire

• Lost Worlds: Angkor Wat

Age of Exploration & Global Expansion

• The Age of Exploration

• Columbus: Secrets from the Grave

• Magellan: Circumnavigating the World

• The Conquistadors

• The Mayan Collapse

• The Aztec Empire

• The Inca: Masters of the Clouds

• The Portuguese Empire

• The Dutch Golden Age

• The British Empire

Revolutionary Eras

• The American Revolution

• The Revolution (History Channel)

• The French Revolution

• Napoleon: The Man Who Would Be Emperor

• Napoleon: In the Name of Art

• The Haitian Revolution

• Simon Bolivar: Liberator of South America

• The Russian Revolution

• The Fall of the Romanovs

• The Industrial Revolution

19th‑Century Global Shifts

• Queen Victoria’s Empire

• The American West

• The Civil War (Ken Burns)

• The Boer War

• The Crimean War

• The Meiji Restoration

• The Ottoman Empire: The War Machine

• The Austro-Hungarian Empire

• The Rise of Germany

• The Great Game

20th‑Century Epic Histories (Non‑War Focus)

• The British Royal Family: A Century of Change

• The Windsors: A Royal Dynasty

• The Last Czars

• The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire

• China: A Century of Revolution

• The Story of Europe

• The Story of the Jews

• The Story of Russia

• The Story of the Middle East

• The Story of Africa

Archaeology & Lost Worlds

• Lost Worlds: Atlantis

• Lost Worlds: Pompeii

• Secrets of the Dead: Cleopatra’s Lost Tomb

• Secrets of the Dead: Nero’s Golden House

• Mysteries of the Maya

• Secrets of the Pharaohs

• The Lost Kingdoms of Africa

• The Lost Kingdoms of South America

• The Search for Troy

• The Lost City of Z

Epic Multi‑Era Series

• Civilisations (BBC)

• Human Planet

• Mankind: The Story of All of Us

• The Ascent of Man

• The Story of Us (National Geographic)

• How the Earth Was Made

• The Incredible Human Journey

• The Story of God

• The Story of the World