In 1896, Ethiopia, an African nation, largely armed with spears and knives, defeats a well-equipped and organized Italian military bent on colonization.

A woman - raised in the jungle - tries to help an American stop a native uprising spurned on by Nazi...

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Q...

This documentary of repressive political realities in Cameroon begins with the 1990 publication of a...

Return to al-Ma’in chronicles the multiyear collaboration between Forensic Architecture (FA) and Pal...

Benedict Arnold is not the villain of American history most people were taught to believe. New facts...

The adventurer, Ivan Bulík, traveled all through Africa. However, one of his dreams still eluded him...

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...

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

Three centuries of Venezuela's history as a Spanish colony are considered from economic, political a...

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on bot...

Robert Gould Shaw leads the US Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices of...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

Drawing on original footage from National Geographic, Etched in Bone explores the impact of one noto...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

This film speaks of archaic peoples, their customs and mores, in an attempt to make the last snapsho...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...
On a journey to West Africa, award-winning documentarian Mathew Welsh fashions portraits of six 'mid...

Edeltraut Hertel - a midwife caught between two worlds. She has been working as a midwife in a small...

A young British officer resigns his post when he learns of his regiment's plan to ship out to the Su...