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.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the ...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
In the Moroccan desert night dilutes forms and silence slides through sand. Dawn starts then to draw...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Dir...
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the fi...
A parallel montage of the construction of a dam in Galicia and the architecture of a small Roman-sty...
The story of British officer T.E. Lawrence's mission to aid the Arab tribes in their revolt against ...
Young real estate agent Clara Morales encouraged risky loans to her clients during the housing boom....
"1985: Heroes among Ruins" is a reflection of disaster. It is about the human solidarity, the search...
The story of the Bugattis of Milan and Molsheim, the eccentric family behind the brand: Carlo, the p...
Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...
The film is set on September 1th, 1923 , when a huge earthquake hits Tokyo . The quake caused buildi...