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 impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

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

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland and traces the course of a breeding s...

A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions...

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

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

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

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

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

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...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

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

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

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