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.

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...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are fou...

This short documentary follows the fortunes of iconic car manufacturer Lotus. Once famous for its ch...

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...
The film discusses the evolution and potential of using light waves, particularly coherent light, fo...

Explores the history, technology, people, stories and industry influence of this lesser-known person...

Conservation biologist Tim Shields sees urgency in the field and finds that traditional conservation...