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

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

How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black...

Julia always said that her upbringing as a biological child in a foster family was a happy time. But...

The Institute of National Remembrance, Fish Ladder and Juice present “The Unconquered” – an animated...

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

A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions...

Guy Martin undertakes a challenge to restore a plane from the Second World War, and recreate a parac...

Why has letterpress printing survived? Irreplaceable knowledge of the historic craft is in danger of...

Noel Edmonds, Keith Chegwin, John Craven and Maggie Philbin reunite for a one-off edition of the Sat...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

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

The Triangle Fire chronicles the 1911 fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory in New York City kill...

Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de Fr...
This short-form documentary focuses on the true story of Alfons Heck, who as an impressionable 10-y...

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

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

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

Host Grant Jeffrey discusses how technology and government activities are changing the way our infor...

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