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.

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the vi...

Humankind has always dreamt of the night sky. Of the infinite freedom offered by the black void, and...

At the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians showed the world how to build the impossible... In an ...

A picture of John F. Kennedy Jr. you've never seen before - new interviews, rare video, intimate new...

Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineeri...

Diary of a Cheating Woman review This film is a hilarious African-American docudrama that explores t...

The documentary tells the little known story of thousands of Ukrainian and Eastern Europeans that we...

The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to...

From the time he was a young boy roaming the forests of the unsettled Midwest, Abraham Lincoln knew ...

A look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to...

On February 1, 1913, more than 150,000 people eagerly rushed to Grand Central Terminal to gaze at Ne...

A historical and present day look at the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 and how the descendants of the ...

Part of ESPN's 30 for 30 Shorts. On October 30, 2001, with the United States of America still reelin...

With stunning views of eruptions and lava flows, Werner Herzog captures the raw power of volcanoes a...

Hajji Hossein-Gholi Noori (Haji Baba) goes to Washington D.C. as the first Iranian (Persian) ambassa...

For over a hundred years, Mărculești was a vibrant Jewish agricultural and mercantile community in B...

Fifty years since the start of The Troubles, the film captures the remarkable history of the Irish n...

The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks...

Benjamin Woolley presents the gripping story of Nicholas Culpeper, the 17th century radical pharmaci...