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.

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece en...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...

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

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...

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

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

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

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

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

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

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...

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