The History Channel is a cable television channel, which primarily presents programming related to historical events and persons—often with observations and explanations by noted historians as well as reenactors and interviews with witnesses. Some of the original programming is also shown on History Television in Canada. The UK version of the History Channel is operated as a joint venture between A&E and British Sky Broadcasting.

Programming and ownership
The History Channel received the nickname, the "Hitler Channel",

Criticism and evaluation

List of shows

American Eats (2006–date)
Ancient Discoveries
Ancient Mysteries (1997)
Back to the Blueprint (2005)
Battlefield Detectives
Boneyard
Boys' Toys
Breaking Vegas (2005–date)
Color of War
Command Decisions (2004)
Conflict
The Conquerors (2005)
Conquest (2002–2003)
Conspiracy?
Civil War Combat
Civil War Journal
Declassified
Decisive Battles (2004)
Decoding the Past (2003-present)
Deep Sea Detectives (2003-present)
Digging for the Truth (2005–present)
Disasters of the Century
Dogfights (2006-date)
Double 'F' (2006)
Engineering an Empire (2006-2007)
Extreme History with Roger Daltry (2003)
Failure Is Not an Option (2003)
Fact To Film (2006)
Full Throttle (2004–2005)
The Great Ships
Great Crimes and Trials
Guts + Bolts (2003-2004)
Haunted History (1999)
Heavy Metal (TV series) (2000-2004, initially called Battle Stations.)
History IQ (2000)
History's Lost & Found (1999)
History's Mysteries (1999–date)
History's Turning Points
History vs. Hollywood
Human Weapon (2007)
Ice Road Truckers (2007)
Incredible but True? (2001)
In Search of...
Investigating History (2003–date)
Jumbo Movies (2006)
Mail Call (2002–date)
Man, Moment, Machine (2005–date)
Mega Disasters
Mega Movers
Modern Marvels (1995–date)
The Most
Rats, Bats & Bugs
Reel to Real
Save Our History
Shootout! (2005–date)
Spy Web
Sworn to Secrecy
Tactical to Practical (2003–2004)
Tales of the Gun
Targeted
Tech Effect (2004)
The Lost Evidence
The States [1]
This Week In History (2000-1)
Time Machine (1995-2004)
Trains Unlimited (1997-1998)
True Action Adventures (1995-7)
UFO Files (2005?–date)
Wild West Tech (2003–2005)
Weird US (television series) (2004–2005)
The XY Factor
Unforgettables (2006)
Zero Hour Regular series

12 Days That Shocked The World (2007)
10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America (2006)
American Eats: History on a Bun
The American Revolution (2006)
Ape to Man (2005)
Banned from the Bible (2003)*
Band of Brothers (2004)
Barbarians
Ben Franklin (2005)
The Century: America's Time (originally aired in 1999)
Comic Book Superheroes Unmasked (2003)
Conquest of America (2005)
Da Vinci and the Code He Lived By
The Cole Conspiracy (2005)
The Crusades: Crescent and the Cross (November 2005)
Fabulous Treasures (2006)
FDR: A Presidency Revealed (2005)
First Invasion: The War of 1812 (September 11, 2004)
The French Revolution (2005)
Gerald Ford: A Man and his Moment (December 2006)
Heroes under Fire
The History of Sex (1999)
The Holy Grail (2005)
History's Greatest Mysteries (2005)
To The Best of My Ability
Hitler's Women (2001)
Hitler's Henchmen (1996)
Hooked: Illegal Drugs & How They Got That Way (2000)
JFK: A Presidency Revealed (2003)
The Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History (1998)
Lincoln (2006)
The Lincoln Assassination (1995)
Mavericks, Miracles & Medicine (2004)
Napoleon
Nixon: A Presidency Revealed (February 2007)
The Plague (2005)
The Presidents (2005)
Quest for King Arthur (2004)
The Real Scorpion King
Rome: Engineering an Empire (2005)
Ronald Reagan: A Legacy Remembered (2002)
Russia, Land of the Tsars (2003)
Secret Societies (show)
Sex in World War II
Legacy of Star Wars (2007)
Star Wars Tech (2007)
Sherman's March (2007)
The States (2007)
Style Icon (2006)
The True Story of Alexander the Great
The True Story of Hannibal (2003)
True Caribbean Pirates (2006)
The Universe (TV series) (2007)
Warrior Queen Boudica
We Can Make You Talk (2004)
Who Wrote the Bible Specials and mini-series

Blood Diamonds (2006)
How William Shatner Changed the World (2005)
Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier (2007)
The Last Stand of the 300 (2007)
Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed (2007) Syndication

The History Channel: Great Battles of Rome
The History Channel: Civil War The Game
The History Channel: ShootOut! The Game Video games

The Unknown Hitler DVD collection, including Hitler and the Occult See also