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.

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...

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

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

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

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

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

In an intense action-filled 85 minutes, you will learn to defend yourself against the mounting threa...

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

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

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

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

On August 8, 1908, at a racetrack outside Paris, Wilbur Wright executed what was, for him, a routine...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...