Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals the lead-up to the offensive, its impact on the war and the brinksmanship that resulted from the battle for Moscow. Rare footage from both German and Russian archives and detailed maps illustrate the conflict, while award-winning historian and author John Erickson provides insight into the pivotal maneuvers on the eastern front.

My grandfather fought alongside Pancho Villa, became Master Mason, was an elected official who repre...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...

On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty undergro...

A documentary about the production of From Dusk Till Dawn (1996) and the people who made it.

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

It is the winter of 1943. Somewhere in central Greece. A captain and a sergeant of the Greek army ar...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

Gustave Folcher, a French farmer, wrote in his 1939 diary that the summer had been long and hot. He ...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is appalled to discover that a ...

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...

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

The lives of two French sisters are torn apart by the onset of World War II.

Madrid, Spain, 1949. The Circo Americano arrives in the city. While the big top is pitched in a vaca...

Documentary about the history of experimental cinema in Spain. FRAGMENTS is a historical survey of ...