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.

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

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

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions...

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

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

1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: he won his first US Open, while also reaching bot...

Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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