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.
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

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...

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

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

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

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mou...

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

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...

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

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...