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

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

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

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Revealed in independant movies such as My Own Private Idaho, blockbuster movie star in Point Break a...

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history ofYellow Springs, Ohio o...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

Pursued by 2,000 US soldiers and cavalry, Chief Joseph leads his tribe of 800 Nez Perce on a 1,700 m...

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...

The Le Mans race in 1955 made history through tragedy when more than 80 spectators were killed. Unco...