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.

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

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

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

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

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

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

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

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

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

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

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

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

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of...

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

The third installment of the infamous "is it real or fake?" mondo series sets its sights primarily o...

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

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...