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...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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...

How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black...

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

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

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

Aaron Eliyahu, a Jewish man, travels to a small village called Mala, Kerala in search of his Jewish ...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

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

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...

Vikings pillage Ireland, seeking silver and slaves, slaying men and women in the process. A young bo...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

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

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

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