The contrast between the majestic statues of Easter Island and the desolation of their surroundings is stark. For decades Easter Island, or Rapa Nui as the islanders call it, has been seen as a warning from history for the planet as a whole - willfully expend natural resources and the collapse of civilization is inevitable.

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

For a long time, in France, comedy was the preserve of men. Female roles were mostly secondary and c...

They come from all walks of life and have lived for almost a century. They have lived through the up...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad....
The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...