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.

For years, there has been an effort to discover the exact origin of the most popular American grape ...

Riding Giants is story about big wave surfers who have become heroes and legends in their sport. Dir...

A description and enactment of the discovery of gold by James Marshall, and the role played by John ...

Exploring the rise and fall of the groundbreaking animated series Ren & Stimpy and its controversi...

On November 8, 2018, a spark flew in the Sierra Nevada foothills, igniting the most destructive wil...
Narrated by Queen Latifah, this documentary follows Elsie, a black Labrador mix, and her struggled t...

An ethnographic documentary following four Ju/’hoansi (!Kung) men during a multi-day giraffe hunt in...

An investigation of "disaster capitalism", based on Naomi Klein's proposition that neo-liberal capit...

An engine fire leaves 4,000 passengers stranded at sea without power and plumbing in this wild docum...

A Titanic dive. A fatal implosion. Five lives lost. As the world watched, investigators raced to unc...

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised cr...

Twenty-Five miles from town, a million miles from mainstream society, a loose-knit community of eco-...

In 2008 French filmmaker Julie Gali traveled to the US to film the election of Barack Obama. In spit...

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell...

The true story of technical troubles that scuttle the Apollo 13 lunar mission in 1970, risking the l...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian si...

A band struggles to reconcile for a reunion tour a decade after a contentious break-up and a fatal a...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...