A photographic journey compiled from journals, archival footage and photographs of an Australian military photographer, Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1931 as he went from New York to the North Pole in an old WWI submarine to explore the Arctic Ocean. Included on dvd are a brief history of the submarine and photographic gallery of Wilkins.

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...
Robert Llewellyn examines the enduring appeal of submarine movies, finding a beached Cold War Russia...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects o...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...


Showcases 3 major events during World War 2 involving both the Europeans & Pacific conflicts. The Ra...

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...
Personal experiences of Northwest Ohio residents during the January 1978 blizzard that disrupted dai...

Launch of a competition, organized by the newspaper O Século, entitled Statues of Portugal.

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her...

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to ...

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and O...

Between 1931 and 1933, 4 million Ukrainians were to die of hunger. This famine was not preceded by a...

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of ...

A Titanic dive. A fatal implosion. Five lives lost. As the world watched, investigators raced to unc...