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.

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

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

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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