It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with pictures that are as bizarre as they are puzzling — and written in a language that even the best cryptographers have been unable to decode. No wonder that this script even has a part in Dan Brown’s latest bestseller “The Lost Symbol”.

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

Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

Forensic experts scan Pompeii’s victims to investigate why they didn’t escape the eruption.

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital...

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

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

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

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

For several decades, geoscientists have been observing that the Earth is changing rapidly due to hum...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...