Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
Three Frenchmen go out on their first polar expedition to the largest polar desert in the world. Sar...
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigat...
Inspired by the book of the same name, film-maker James Marsh relays a tale of tragedy, murder and m...
In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants ...
The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a youn...
Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley o...
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, t...
Docudrama telling the story of a building with a breath taking career that began in the empire, flou...
An actuality and reportage film. This film captures Lord Frederick Roberts (British Army rank Field ...
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness nov...
With a divine answer to a humble prayer at age 14, Joseph Smith began to fulfill his inspired missio...
An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the B...
Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on Ap...
A team of women from the Western and Arab world makes a bid to reach the North Pole. This unpreceden...
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...