As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art house films like Peter Weir's "Picnic At Hanging Rock," a new underground of low-budget exploitation filmmakers were turning out considerably less highbrow fare. Documentary filmmaker Mark Hartley explores this unbridled era of sex and violence, complete with clips from some of the scene's most outrageous flicks and interviews with the renegade filmmakers themselves.

The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: what did scientists f...

Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

A documentary chronicle of one of our greatest directors.

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history clas...
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...

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

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benj...

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 ...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Gree...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...