Explore the 1928 collapse of the St. Francis Dam, the second deadliest disaster in California history. A colossal engineering and human failure, the dam was built by William Mulholland, a self-taught engineer who ensured the growth of Los Angeles by bringing the city water via aqueduct. The catastrophe killed more than 400 people and destroyed millions of dollars of property.
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against ...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
In the aftermath of the most devastating conflict mankind had ever experienced, the tiny island of S...
Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are s...
Spring 2012 the Swedish band La Fleur Fatale embarked on a journey to and through California. During...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short ...
On a stormy day in May of 1889, the South Fork Dam impounding Conemaugh Lake exploded, unleashing a ...
Documentary presented by Professor Simon Schaffer which charts the amazing and untold story of autom...
A walk through the landscapes of the province of Barcelona, Spain, as well as a testimony of the dai...
A walk through the landscapes of the province of Salamanca, Spain, as well as a testimony of the dai...
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attem...
An in-depth look at how Italy's largest cruise ship ran aground off the Italian coast.
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to...