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.

A band of vikings are on the run from a blood thirsty group of Berserkers who want to fight to the d...

Ewan McGregor narrates a captivating portrait of wild Shetland and traces the course of a breeding s...
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital...

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

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

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

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

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

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

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...

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 ...

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...

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