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.
BUILT FOR MARS: THE PERSEVERANCE ROVER goes behind the scenes at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory to...
During a turning point in Indonesian history, a family must endure personal turmoil while their nati...
Short documentary on the making of Henry Levin's Genghis Khan, which filmed on location in Yugoslavi...
The director embarks on a journey to reveal the story behind the legendary Café Nagler, owned by her...
Just how far can engineering go? This program explores the feasibility of constructing several extra...
Take a musical odyssey through five weird and wonderful decades with brothers Ron & Russell Mael, ce...
This is the extraordinary true story of Trudy Ederle, the first woman to successfully swim the Engli...
During the darkest days of the Depression when construction was started on Grand Coulee Dam, everyth...
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the fi...
On the 19th of November 2010, the Pike River mine exploded with 31 men trapped inside. In the immedi...
A tour of the arid, inhospitable region of the southern California desert known as Death Valley, ori...
Re-examines the dramatic events of Boxing Day 2004, and investigates the new science of Tsunami fore...
In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short ...
Many years after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, the survivors (called hibakusha in Japanese) are s...
Narrated by historian, critic and filmmaker Elvis Mitchell, this documentary reflects the developmen...
A documentary film investigating the 1928 murder of a Pennsylvania farmer and the allegations of wit...
The film was filmed in Bibi-Heybat, a suburb of Baku (now the capital of Azerbaijan), during a fire ...
Ben Fogle spends a week living inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, gaining privileged access to the...
In the 1920s, two names dominated the world's long-distance running rankings. Paavo Nurmi was a lege...
Global warming in context. What the climate of the past tells us about the climate of the future.