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.

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

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

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

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

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

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

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

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

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...

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...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

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

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