The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, County Kerry, to Newfoundland, Canada, 165 years ago was an 8 year endeavor that helped lay the foundation of the modern technology industry and explains the fragility of undersea cables today.

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

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

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

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

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

Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinemati...

Takes us to locations all around the US and shows us the heavy toll that modern technology is having...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was ...

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

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Cauc...