The History channel was history 25 years ago, my wife would always tease me and ask why I was watching another show about WWII when I knew how it ended. The men who built America a few years back was pretty good, not so much about the people but about how railroads,kerosene, electricity, etc., changed how people lived.
Do you remember they also did one hour shows about cars, including Austin Healey and Jaguar? I recorded most of them on VHS-wanted to keep them, wife kept making noises about how we didn't have a VHS player and never would again, the mysterious workings of the female brain (ha ha). (Edit: VHS, not DVD)