In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of immigration to the United States from 1892 to 1954, an enthralling polyphonic narrative that embraces both small and great history.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

An analysis of the impact on the United States Latino community of immigration policies promoted by ...

The Freedom of the Sea is a short documentary highlighting the freedom of living in the UK - in cont...

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a...

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...
A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in Americ...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

Martin Scorsese’s electrifying concert documentary captures The Rolling Stones live at New York’s Be...

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

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...

San Francisco Bay is home to various shark species. Alcatraz guards made sure the prisoners knew it,...

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.
The television production is an episode from the life of Andrej Sládkovič. Braxatoris, known as Slád...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

An aspiring poet in 1950s New York has his ordered world shaken when he embarks on a week-long retre...
Getting out of prison doesn't mean being free. After the bloody suppression of the Prague Revolution...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that opera...