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.

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

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

As a general, he had fought to preserve the Union. As president, he helped to oversee the transforma...

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

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...

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

On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...

How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s hea...

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

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...

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

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

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

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...

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

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

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...