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 the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of...

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...

On May 8, 1989, Sports Illustrated ran an article about Ultimate frisbee… about a team with no name ...

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...

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

Arguably second only to Muddy Waters among the Mississippi Delta singers who traveled north and pion...

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...

Documentary about the lost 1914 film "Sperduti nel buio". Film historian Denis Lotto journeys across...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

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 ...

We all know about Alexandria, one of the greatest cities of the classical world, with its great Libr...

Gouge - a documentary tracing The Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yo...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

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