Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigate the Northwest Passage, a new trade route over the top of the world, when Franklin’s ships vanished without a trace. Now, a team of explorers attempts to solve the mystery by retracing Franklin’s route in search of his long-lost tomb.

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

Johnny Shiloh is a 1963 made for TV film that originally aired in two parts on the Wonderful World o...

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel a...

A documentary produced in 1979 to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Albert Einstein. Narrated ...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Cauc...