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 film portrays MacArthur's life from 1942, before the Battle of Bataan, to 1952, the time after h...

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

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

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

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

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it...

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

Meet The Plastic People of the Universe, the avant-garde, jazz-rock, Sun Ra meets Velvet Underground...

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

We Remember Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe transforms from Norma Jean, a cuddly teenager, into the most rec...

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this docu...

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

Egyptians were famed for their extravagant building techniques and extraordinary gods, but what abou...

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

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...

Arguably second only to Muddy Waters among the Mississippi Delta singers who traveled north and pion...