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.
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United ...
BBC documentary about Franz Kafka played by GREEK TV in 1990.This documentary is one of the ten film...
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film ...
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...
The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto will be airing a short film blending history and fantasy...
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...
The third installment of the infamous "is it real or fake?" mondo series sets its sights primarily o...
In the spring of 1927, after weeks of incessant rains, the Mississippi River went on a rampage from ...
Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...
The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: what did scientists f...
The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...
1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
A politically naive Viennese butcher (Bockerer) manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria an...