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 murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publish...

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

In the late 19th Century, Mary Breydon, a widow, and Peggy Breydon, her daughter manage a stagecoach...

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...

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

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with...

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

The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Cauc...
This documentary explores the events surrounding the greatest maritime tragedy in the history of the...

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

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

San Francisco Bay is home to various shark species. Alcatraz guards made sure the prisoners knew it,...

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

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

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