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.

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

Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...
Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

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

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

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Gree...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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

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

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

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

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