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.
Dan Snow, Dr Alice Roberts and Dr Albert Lin investigate a series of earth-shattering discoveries at...
It is the world’s most mysterious manuscript. A book, written by an unknown author, illustrated with...
Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey ...
Based on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of E...
″Haymatloz″ tells the stories of five German Jewish academics who emigrated to Turkey in the 1930s, ...
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the vi...
The beautiful and dangerous lesbian slave trader Druscilla practices all the customs of Ancient Rome...
This timely, bold set of one-on-one interviews presents two of the most venerable figures from the A...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
The incredible story of the Avro Lancaster, one of the finest bombers of the Second World War, which...
In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...
Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...
Adventurers, explorers and conquerors: the Vikings are considered the greatest heroes of the Middle ...
A journey to the heartland of the Midwest for an in-depth look at an ongoing phenomenon: one of the ...
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...