Eisenhower's path to presidency and, how his national security policies and tactics kept a divided world at peace during the 1950s. Hosted by journalist and author Evan Thomas.

Home to acclaimed authors, including four Nobel Prize laureates, Ireland has given the world a rich body of literature.

This series introduces the extraordinary body of English literature with such authors as Chaucer, Shakespeare, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot, J. K. Rowling and more.

As the human population marches toward 10 billion people, understanding where people live, how they are connected, and how they are shaping different parts of the planet is essential.

Niall Ferguson explores how Western civilization - a clear minority of mankind - secured a lion's share of the world's resources, and examines whether the West is about to be overtaken by the rest.

Presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, The BBC series, A History Of Christianity will reveal the true origins of Christianity. Intelligent, thought-provoking and magisterial in its scope the series will reveal how a small Jewish sect that preached humility became the biggest religion in the world.

Moyers Visits with physicians, scientists, therapists and patients around the world, investigating the growing number of alternate therapies, their degree of success and the amount of clinical evidence to support their success.

Robert Hughes' history of Modern Art from Cubism to Pop and the Avant-Garde