Felix Moumié was a rebel leader in Cameroon. He was poisoned by thallium in October, 1960 in Geneva. After nearly fifty years, no one has been charged with his death, though many suspect the French and Swiss governments played a part in his death.

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

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

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

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

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

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

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

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...