Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about one of the most compelling of the great Viking stories - the Laxdaela Saga. This hour-long film explores how the unique literary achievements of the Saga writers were possible at a time of such immense cultural, political and religious upheaval.
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...
In 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract neg...
Esma, Berk and Hasan are three people who try to escape the troubles of life with the help of a vide...
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together ...
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United ...
The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto will be airing a short film blending history and fantasy...
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...
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...
Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...
Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young bo...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...
Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...