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

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

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

Though visibly frail and weary, President Franklin D. Roosevelt runs for a precedent-setting fourth ...

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...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

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

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

Dr. Mark Fairchild, world-renowned archaeologist, traces the hidden years of Saint Paul's life in th...

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

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

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

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

The first woman rabbi in the world, Regina Jonas, comes to light, courtesy of Rachel Weisz – who pla...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...