At the dawn of history, the ancient Egyptians showed the world how to build the impossible... In an age before machines, when copper was the strongest metal yet discovered, great pharaohs like Khufu and Ramses II demonstrated how boundless ambition and vast quantities of human labour could transform rock and stone into some of the most incredible monuments ever created from carving out spectacular tombs in the Valley Of The Kings to the building of the iconic Great Pyramid. In this fascinating documentary special we uncover the secrets of Ancient Egypt Pharaoh, engineers and architects and bring to life great buildings and the ancient Egyptians saw them - towering over their great civilisation in the history of Africa, and perhaps the World....

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
In the 14 months prior to the revolution, filmmaker Lillie Paquette follows key opposition figures a...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with t...
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

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

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

No matter what your age you'll love watching this impressive and comprehensive story of the developm...

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

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...

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

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

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