Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and survival. The Donner Party's nightmarish journey penetrated to the very heart of the American Dream at a crucial phase of the nation's "manifest destiny." Touching some of the most powerful social, economic and political currents of the time, this extraordinary narrative remains one of the most compelling and enduring episodes to come out of the West.

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

The NFL has staged 48 Super Bowls. Four photographers have taken pictures at every one of them. In K...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

Egyptians were famed for their extravagant building techniques and extraordinary gods, but what abou...

The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Mar...

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...

Kyra Gardner's loving tribute to growing up in the world of the psycho killer doll, Chucky.

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

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 ...

For two thousand years, caravans traveled from Xian in China along the Silk Road to Istanbul, a hub ...

The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous ...

A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions...

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this docu...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...