Story
United States
Story focuses on narrative-driven content, with a programming slate built around scripted dramas, miniseries, and documentary series that explore real-life events. The channel’s lineup in the United States leans heavily on character-driven plots and historical or biographical subjects, often drawing from true crime, legal cases, and cultural moments. Original productions and acquired series alike tend to emphasize suspense, emotional depth, and layered storytelling rather than reality competition or talk formats. Feature films occasionally appear, typically those with strong narrative arcs or based on published works.
Viewers can access the channel through standard cable and satellite packages across the country. A selection of recent episodes and full seasons is available on the network’s streaming platform, though live broadcasts and certain titles remain exclusive to the linear feed. TV guide listings show a consistent schedule of back-to-back episodes during prime time, with fewer interruptions for commercial breaks compared to some general entertainment networks. The channel does not carry news, sports, or religious programming, keeping its focus on scripted and documentary storytelling.
Schedule
00:00 - 01:00
Assassinations That Changed the World
Fanaticism That Endures
Series, Documentary, Miniseries
The deaths of Mahatma Ghandi, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin.
01:00 - 02:00
Assassinations That Changed the World
The Loner Meets The President
Series, Documentary, Miniseries
Examining the loner as assassin focusing on Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth and John Hinckley, who shot Reagan to win actress Jodie Foster's attention.
02:00 - 03:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
Double Jeopardy; Witness to the Killing Fields
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov worked with the CIA until his execution in 1960; CIA officer Chip Beck rescued more than 200 people from genocide at the Killing Fields.
03:00 - 04:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
Spy Who Saved the World; Dictator's Daughter
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel with Soviet military intelligence who worked with the CIA; officer Robert Rayle sneaks Stalin's daughter out of India.
04:00 - 05:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
Trigon; Urgent Fury
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
Soviet foreign diplomat Alexsandr Dmitrevich Ogorodnik became the CIA's most valuable spy; case officer reports on U.S. medical students trapped in Grenada.
05:00 - 06:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
A Traitor Within; The Berlin Tunnel
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
How the CIA caught a spy within its Counterintelligence Division; "Operation Gold," a plan to tunnel under the Berlin Wall where phones could be tapped.
06:00 - 07:00
Assassinations That Changed the World
Murder That Changed the World
Series, Documentary, Miniseries
A look at leaders murdered at the peaks of their careers, before their full impact had even been realized, including Huey Long, Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
07:00 - 08:00
Assassinations That Changed the World
Conspiracy for Change
Series, Documentary, Miniseries
Examines attempts to change great power structures by murder and focuses on the assassinations or attempts on Hitler, Trotsky, Lenin and the Archduke Ferdinand.
08:00 - 09:00
Assassinations That Changed the World
Fanaticism That Endures
Series, Documentary, Miniseries
The deaths of Mahatma Ghandi, Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin.
09:00 - 10:00
Assassinations That Changed the World
The Loner Meets The President
Series, Documentary, Miniseries
Examining the loner as assassin focusing on Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth and John Hinckley, who shot Reagan to win actress Jodie Foster's attention.
10:00 - 11:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
Double Jeopardy; Witness to the Killing Fields
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
Lt. Col. Pyotr Popov worked with the CIA until his execution in 1960; CIA officer Chip Beck rescued more than 200 people from genocide at the Killing Fields.
11:00 - 12:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
Spy Who Saved the World; Dictator's Daughter
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
Oleg Penkovsky, a colonel with Soviet military intelligence who worked with the CIA; officer Robert Rayle sneaks Stalin's daughter out of India.
12:00 - 13:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
Trigon; Urgent Fury
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
Soviet foreign diplomat Alexsandr Dmitrevich Ogorodnik became the CIA's most valuable spy; case officer reports on U.S. medical students trapped in Grenada.
13:00 - 14:00
Top Secret Missions of the CIA
A Traitor Within; The Berlin Tunnel
Series, Documentary, History, World history, Military, War
How the CIA caught a spy within its Counterintelligence Division; "Operation Gold," a plan to tunnel under the Berlin Wall where phones could be tapped.
14:00 - 15:00
Save Our History
Frontier Homes
Series, Documentary, History
A survey of early American homes, from the post and beam timber frame, the log house, the sod house and the adobe home.
15:00 - 16:00
Save Our History
American Lighthouses
Series, Documentary, History
Many historic lighthouses are close to being lost forever.
16:00 - 17:00
Save Our History
Valley Forge
Series, Documentary, History
Thousands of soldiers die in the snowy encampment at Valley Forge, Pa.
17:00 - 18:00
Save Our History
Civil War Battlefields
Series, Documentary, History
Civil War battlefields are rapidly being paved over by spreading commercial and residential real estate developments.
18:00 - 19:00
Save Our History
S.O.S.: Save Our Ships
Series, Documentary, History
Liberty ship the John W. Brown; schooner Coronet; schooner C.A. Thayer; Chesapeake Bay Oyster Fleet; cruiser USS Olympia.
19:00 - 20:00
Save Our History
The World War II Memorial
Series, Documentary, History
An overview of the National World War II Memorial, to be built between the Washington and Lincoln Monuments.
20:00 - 21:00
Save Our History
Voices of Civil Rights
Series, Documentary, History
Small, personal stories of men, women and children tell the story of the Civil Rights movement.
21:00 - 22:00
Save Our History
Victorian Reborn
Series, Documentary, History
Historians oversee the restoration of the McCubbins-McCanless House of Salisbury, N.C.
22:00 - 23:00
Save Our History
Frontier Homes
Series, Documentary, History
A survey of early American homes, from the post and beam timber frame, the log house, the sod house and the adobe home.
23:00 - 00:00
Save Our History
American Lighthouses
Series, Documentary, History
Many historic lighthouses are close to being lost forever.