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.

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...

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

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...
A foosball movie video documentary about the players, promoters, history and passion of American foo...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This dipl...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...

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

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with t...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

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

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

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

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