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.
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
In the year following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, young journalist Claude Baechtold finds himself in...
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movi...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families fr...
Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...
"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolu...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
This timely, bold set of one-on-one interviews presents two of the most venerable figures from the A...
The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto will be airing a short film blending history and fantasy...
Best friends travel though Latin America meeting shamans, experimenting with plant medicines, and wo...
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film ...
India’s first underwater war film tries to decode the mystery behind the sinking of Pakistani submar...
A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
The story of the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of shooting President Kennedy. Via flas...