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.

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

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

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

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

In February 1939, more than 20,000 Americans filled Madison Square Garden for an event billed as a “...

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

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

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

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

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past ...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

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

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

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

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