From Rockefeller's first oil wells in 1860 to the recent war in Iraq, oil has been the driving force behind the tragic history of the 20th century. As a vital and strategic raw material, it has been at the heart of all political calculations. So much so that the world of oil has always been dominated by opacity and misinformation. The film lifts the veil on carefully guarded secrets and provides keys to understanding the issues surrounding oil, at a time when a veritable war over resources is underway.

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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

How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black...

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

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

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...