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 ...
REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...
Pianist Richard Glazier offers a unique view of Broadway and Hollywood music using fascinating inter...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families fr...
A documentary about the industrial, urbanistic and social aspects of the Società Anonima Lavorazione...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
"Trotsky and Mexico, two revolutions of the twentieth century" tells us of the famous Russian revolu...