Rome was famed for the decadence of its ruling class, however, what about the ordinary citizens of these ancient cultures? How did they lead their day to day lives in an age when the average life expectancy was little more than forty? Did they believe in the Pagan Gods? What were their sex lives like? What did they do for entertainment? How ordinary Romans lived is, for the most part ...

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

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

Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to me...

The great history of Egypt is inscribed on its monuments, temples and tombs, but hieroglyphs – the w...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

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

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

Documentary of the legendary 1985 music festival in Brazil.

Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of...

In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos a...

Travel to ancient Egypt to see how science was used to tell time, make a workable calendar, and alig...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...

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

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

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...