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.

Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never be...

Born in Berlin in 1896, Lotte Eisner became famous for her passionate involvement in the world of bo...

The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for ident...

In 1975, as America faced social and political upheaval, filmmakers turned chaos into art.

The history of skiing is an amazing journey through small and big events starring strong and avant-g...
The story of Nisar Ahmed Khan, told through his children and the people he served, a spiritual guide...


An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...

How did humanity's earliest ancestors evolve into one of the most successful species on Earth? An ex...

Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular ...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a medit...

From the plains of the Troade, to the cellars of a Nazi bunker, to the dark basements of Moscow's la...

The Glorious Story of Castles Carriers of myths and legends, castles strongly mark our imaginations,...

A boy learns the duties of a shepherd from his idol, the ranch foreman, high in the Colorado mountai...

Professor Alice Roberts follows a decade-long historical quest to reveal a hidden secret of the famo...

It was the battle that decided the future of Europe: on August 26, 1278, two dynasties faced each ot...

It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made stru...