The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical development, and at its most direct outcome: the failed Soviet Union.

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

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

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

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

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with t...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

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

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...