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.

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

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

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

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

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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

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