The infectious disease of smallpox ran rampant for centuries, killing millions – until an experiment on the eight-year-old ...

With intense turns in coming-of-age classics like Rebel Without a Cause, Hollywood actor James Dean left an impact lasting ...

Before the first episode of World War II with Tom Hanks, the Hollywood icon sits down with Sky HISTORY to discuss his ...

The late Nick Pope made his name as a top UFO expert on Sky HISTORY’s Ancient Aliens. Here’s how he went from the UK’s Ministry of Defence to TV fame.

The Vietnam War was one of the Cold War’s most drawn-out conflicts – but even its end was traumatic, as communist forces ...

Our Lady of Fatima refers to a series of apparitions reported by three children in 1917, which claimed to prophesise the ...

Sky’s new espionage drama PONIES is set in 1970s Moscow. How do the female spy characters compare to the women who actually served the CIA during the Cold War?

It was in the officers' mess of the British Army’s 11th Devonshire Regiment stationed in the Indian town of Jabalpur (Jubbulpore as it was then known) in 1875 that lieutenant Neville Francis ...

Whether seeking to expand their empires and spheres of influence or subjugate those of a different faith, numerous states and dynasties were immersed in the blood and thunder of war during the ...

The Allies would have faced not only enemy soldiers and ferocious kamikaze raids, but also what the US strategists described as ‘a fanatically hostile population’ of civilians. Millions of men, women ...

Franklin D Roosevelt was the US President famous for his New Deal who hid his disability from the world and didn't live to see the Allies' victory over Germany in WW II. Roosevelt was born into a ...

Grandson to Queen Victoria, the old-fashioned but popular King George V, who reigned over an empire from which the sun never set, had a dark side to his personality that today would make him the most ...