The History Channel
The History Channel is a mainstream cable television channel, which presents programming related to historical events and persons —often with observations and explanations by noted historians as well as reenactors and interviews with witnesses.
Despite its sweeping title, viewers often observe that its programming is somewhat narrow in scope, often limiting itself to military history. The two most frequent historical periods covered on The History Channel are WWII (lending the network the unpleasant nickname "the Hitler Channel") and the American Civil War.
It is owned by A&E Television Networks and operates, in various forms, in the United States and the United Kingdom. It is also available in Australia and New Zealand. It is not to be confused with a similar, independently-owned, Canadian service, History Television. Indeed, the phrase "Not available in Canada" was commonly heard during the earliest promotional ads for The History Channel, at least those aired on A&E (which is available in Canada), arguably becoming a de facto slogan.
The History Channel also maintains a non-profit fund called Save Our History, dedicated to the preservation of history and historical sites and artifacts, similar in spirit but not to be confused with the Society of Historical Preservation.
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List of shows
Regular series
- Ancient Marvels (Starts in 2006)
- Ancient Mysteries (1996)
- Automaniac (2005–date)
- Back to the Blueprint (2005)
- Battlefield Detectives
- Breaking Vegas (2005–date)
- Boys' Toys
- Color of War
- Command Decisions (2004)
- Conflict
- The Conquerors (2005)
- Conquest (2002–2003)
- Conspiracy?
- Civil War Combat
- Decisive Battles (2004)
- Deep Sea Detectives (2003–date)
- Digging for the Truth (2005–date)
- Disasters of the Century
- Extreme History with Roger Daltry (2003)
- Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
- FDR: A Presidency Revealed (2005)
- Full Throttle (2004–2005)
- Guts + Bolts (2003)
- Haunted History (1999)
- History IQ (2000)
- History's Lost & Found (1999)
- History's Mysteries (1999–date)
- History vs. Hollywood
- Incredible but True? (2001)
- Investigating History (2003–date)
- JFK: A Presidency Revealed (2003)
- Mail Call (2002–date)
- Man, Moment, Machine (2005–date)
- Mega Movers
- Modern Marvels (1995–date)
- Rats, Bats & Bugs
- Reel to Real
- Save Our History
- Spy Web
- Tactical to Practical (2003–2004)
- Tales of the Gun
- Targeted
- Tech Effect (2004)
- This Week In History (1999)
- Time Machine (2004)
- Wild West Tech (2003–2005)
- The XY Factor
- Zero Hour
Special mini-series
- Ape to Man (2005)
- Banned from the Bible (2003)*
- Band of Brothers (2004)
- Barbarians
- Ben Franklin (2005)
- The Century: America's Time (2005)
- Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (2003)
- Conquest of America (2005)
- The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (November, 2005)
- First Invasion: The War of 1812 (September 11, 2004)
- The French Revolution (2005)
- The Holy Grail (2005)
- Mavericks, Miracles & Medicine (2004)
- Quest for King Arthur (2004)
- Napoleon
- The Presidents (2005)
- The Real Scorpion King
- Rome: Engineering an Empire (2005)
- Russia, Land of the Tsars (2003)
- The True Story of Alexander the Great
- The True Story of Hannibal
- Heroes under Fire
- Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By
- Lincoln
Syndication
In Search of... History Channel Run (Ca.1998-2003) Original 1976-1982.
