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.
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

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...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

The NFL has staged 48 Super Bowls. Four photographers have taken pictures at every one of them. In K...