Project Iceworm was the code name for a top-secret United States Army program during the Cold War to build a network of mobile nuclear missile launch sites under the Greenland ice sheet. The ultimate objective of placing medium-range missiles under the ice — close enough to strike targets within the Soviet Union — was kept secret from the Danish government. To study the feasibility of working under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century.

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...

Dark fears over the North Pole. Long sheltered from large-scale industrial exploitation, the Arctic ...

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to me...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

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

For longer than the United States has been an independent nation, there has been a Marine Corps. The...

The climbing brothers Thomas and Alexander Huber (Germany) attempt to conquer free the infamous "Bav...

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

The astonishing, heartbreaking, inspiring, and largely-untold story of Native Americans in the Unite...

One of the greatest engineering feats in history, the modern US nuclear carrier is a masterpiece of ...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

INVASION is a documentary about the collective memory of a country. The invasion of Panama by the U....