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.

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

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

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

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

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

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

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

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

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

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

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

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

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

Soul On Ice: Past, Present, and Future is a film that presents and retells the unknown contributions...

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

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

In the early 70s Greek cinema entered in a period of crisis. One of its aspects was said "crisis of ...

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