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.

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...

Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristo...

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

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

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

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

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

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

The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

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