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.

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

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

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

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

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

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

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

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

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...

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

The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mou...

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