Popular History TV Shows on The Roku Channel - Page 125

Go Gently

2025

Go Gently

2025
Bonnie Wright and Pattie Gonia embark on a journey of discovery as they travel a scenic road trip from LA to Portland to learn how communities along the route are inspiring eco-friendly practices to the way we eat, shop and travel.
Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution

2022

Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution

2022
6
The two-part documentary event “Right to Offend: The Black Comedy Revolution” explores the progression of Black comedy and the comedians who have used pointed humor to expose, challenge and ridicule society’s injustices and to articulate the Black experience in America. The series examines Black comedy through a unique lens, tracing the evolution and social awakening of the courageous comedians who dared to push against the constraints of their time and spoke truth to power.
Bang Goes the Theory

2009

Bang Goes the Theory

2009
7.8
Dallas Campbell, Liz Bonnin, Jem Stansfield and Dr. Yan Wong take on the scientific world by devising their own ingenious ways of explaining cutting-edge developments in technology.
Kirby Jenner

2020

Kirby Jenner

2020
7
Kirby Jenner shows us his reality as a member of the world’s most famous family.
Monster House

2003

Monster House

2003
Monster House is a Discovery Channel television program that documented the themed remodeling of a residence in a five-day time frame. In 2004, the episode "Zen House" was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Main Title Theme Music for its opening song by composer Dan Mackenzie. In early 2006, Discovery Channel announced the show had been canceled and the final episode, titled "Farewell House", aired in February. Monster House is now running in reruns in 2012 on Spike TV.
Midnight Man

2008

Midnight Man

2008
5.2
Disgraced journalist Max Raban is reduced to raking though bins for celebrity stories, a thankless task that suits him because of his phobia of daylight. His condition has already driven his wife and daughter away and he's desperate for a real story. When he uncovers the murder of two Iranian cousins, Max starts to suspect that there is a death squad at work, targeting pro-Islamists and backed by an organisation bent on waging perpetual war. Is Max an investigative journalist at last?
Sex Next Door

2020

Sex Next Door

2020
3.4
A documentary series that reveals the personal and professional lives of four young sex workers in Seattle. The show explores the stigma and pressures sex workers face by examining their relationships with family, clients, partners, and themselves.
Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy

2018

Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy

2018
7
Five students of the Rescue Bots Training Academy from Cybertron—Hot Shot, Whirl, Medix, Hoist and Wedge—learn to respond to emergency situations and become heroes.
Magnus

2019

Magnus

2019
6.8
Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.
White Fang

1993

White Fang

1993
4.2
White Fang was a 1993 television series loosely based on a novel by Jack London. During its single season 26 episodes were produced. It tells the story of young Matt Scott who adopts a wolf/dog named Fang who continually saves him from bad situations.
Prison Brides

2024

Prison Brides

2024
Follow seven women from around the world who believe they have found their soulmates in the most unexpected of places, American prisons. The docuseries follows the women as they travel from their homes—many visiting the United States for the first time—to meet their prisoner fiancés, husbands, or partners, to chart their futures together.
Buddy vs. Duff

2019

Buddy vs. Duff

2019
7.4
Buddy Valastro and Duff Goldman compete in a series of bake-offs that test their dessert skills. The judges will crown one winner, putting an end to the greatest feud in baking history.
Supernova

2005

Supernova

2005
3.2
An international science conference is held in Australia when Dr. Austin Shepard mysteriously disappears. Dr. Shepard's colleague, Christopher Richardson, and other people are soon faced with the reality of an impending crisis and an attempt to keep the information from the public. While a full-blown supernova does not occur, explosions on the sun cause massive damage in Australia and are shown often in Sydney and in various other cities and countries of the world.
Kevin Hart: Cold As Balls

2018

Kevin Hart: Cold As Balls

2018
The hilarious Kevin Hart joins with his celebrity friends to interview athletic superstars for humorous insights and answers after the game.
Holmes Inspection

2009

Holmes Inspection

2009
8
Holmes Inspection is a 2009 Canadian home renovation series on HGTV, hosted by general contractor Mike Holmes. It is the third of Holmes' renovation series, following Holmes on Homes and Holmes in New Orleans. The format of the series is similar to those of his previous series Holmes on Homes, where Mike enters a home in need of repair and often finds substandard work. However, unlike Holmes on Homes, whose focus was on substandard work done by fraudulent or poor-quality contractors, the focus of Holmes Inspection is on homeowners who have been victimized solely as a result of poor home inspections. In the United States, the series debuted on HGTV on Sunday, December 19, 2010.
First Dates Hotel

2017

First Dates Hotel

2017
7.6
Fred from First Dates invites single people to his very own summer season of love at a luxury hotel in the south of France
The Rap Game

2016

The Rap Game

2016
6.9
Set in Atlanta’s hip hop scene, The Rap Game follow five young hip hop artists, ages 12 to 16 years old, as they work with Dupri and special guests such as Usher, Ludacris, Da Brat, T.I. and Silentó, to become the next big, young rap star.
Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

2006

Indian Summer: The Oka Crisis

2006
Fictionalized portrayal of the conflict and standoff in Kanehsatake during the summer of 1990. This major conflict between a Mohawk community and municipal, Quebec and Canadian governments was over the expansion of a golf course into an aboriginal cemetery. Based on the book by John Ciaccia (Quebec Liberal cabinet minister and negotiator) : The Oka Crisis, A Mirror of the Soul
The Advocates

1991

The Advocates

1991
3.5
Set in Edinburgh, the series contrasts the high powered and respectable world of the lawyers and advocates of the Scottish legal profession, with the sleazy and deadly existence of the city's pimps, prostitutes and drug addicts. When a young prostitute is murdered by a deadly drug overdose, only Doctor Joe Sangster, who has been treating her at the local health clinic, suspects foul play. In the growing climate of fear over drugs and AIDS in the city, his clinic faces closure due to a local campaign. He turns to Greg McDowell for help, and the young lawyer sees the chance to make a name for himself.
Mi Vida Eres Tú

2006

Mi Vida Eres Tú

2006
Mi Vida Eres Tú was a 2006 telenovela filmed and produced in Miami, Florida by Venevisión International. An original story written by Veronica Suarez, It starred Peruvian actor Jorge Aravena and Venezuelan actress Scarlet Ortiz. The two had already starred the successful telenovela Secreto de Amor, also produced in Miami by Fonovideo and Venevisión. It aired on June 9, 2008 until October 23, 2008 on Venezuela via Venevisión Plus at the 10pm timeslot and reairing at the 1pm timselot.