In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

Vintage vehicles on parade in this amateur film record of the longest-running motor event in the wor...

Germany's first Open Source movie. A gonzo style documentary.

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new er...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

A cultural portrait of the American dream at a critical time in the nation’s history. Set against th...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontaineble...

Director Agnès Varda and photographer/muralist JR journey through rural France and form an unlikely ...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

In 1973, when Frank Bledsoe and his 18-year-old niece Beth take a road trip from Manhattan to Creekv...

China is the only civilization that continues to hold sway throughout its entire territory as define...
Pianist Richard Glazier offers a unique view of Broadway and Hollywood music using fascinating inter...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...