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.
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible ...
In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Departmen...
September 3rd, 1939. Britain and France declare war on Nazi Germany, only two days after the Wehrmac...
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for ident...
Coffee is the second most important commodity in the world after oil. The drink has a long history a...
1942 Paris. Annette is 20 years old, Jean is barely older, they love each other and the future is br...
A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable transpired when devastating attacks on the World Trade Cente...
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseud...
Set in a rustic English village in the mid 19th century, Under The Greenwood Tree tells the story of...
The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit f...
Portrait of an exceptional musical talent and one of opera’s biggest stars, mezzo-soprano Cecilia Ba...
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...
The story of a Pogorzelski nobleman who settled in the castle in Samsonów to renovate a damaged buil...