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.

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

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

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...

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

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

A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with t...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

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...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

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

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

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