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.
Based on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of E...
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the vi...
The beautiful and dangerous lesbian slave trader Druscilla practices all the customs of Ancient Rome...
Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey ...
It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with...
On December 4, 1872, the unmanned Mary Celeste was found adrift in the Atlantic with its cargo fully...
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent...
The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Mar...
Antarctica: A Frozen History takes a look at the history and stories of the human explorations in th...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...
This timely, bold set of one-on-one interviews presents two of the most venerable figures from the A...
A journey to the heartland of the Midwest for an in-depth look at an ongoing phenomenon: one of the ...
The amazing true story of a Uruguayan rugby team's plane that crashed in the middle of the Andes mou...
He was the most prolific within the New Portuguese Cinema generation. He would try western spaghetti...
Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from Augu...
The incredible story of the Avro Lancaster, one of the finest bombers of the Second World War, which...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract neg...
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...