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.

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

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Par...

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

Keith Garner visits historical locations, elegant chapels and bustling city centres as he discovers ...

The story of the Wright Brothers and their efforts to invent, build, and fly the world's first succe...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are fou...

They come from all walks of life and have lived for almost a century. They have lived through the up...

Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad....

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

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

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

At the height of the space race, three U.S. astronauts are tapped as the first Apollo crew. With daz...

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated ...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.