Six young women programmed the world's first all-electronic programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of a secret US WWII project. They changed the world, but were never introduced and never received credit. These pioneers deserve to be known and celebrated: Betty Snyder Holberton, Jean Jennings Barik, Kay McNulty Mauchly Antonelli, Marlyn Wescoff Meltzer, Ruth Lichterman Teitelbaum, and Frances Bilas Spence.

Adolfo Kaminsky started saving lives when chance and necessity made him a master forger. As a teenag...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

The use of embryonic stem cells has ignited fierce debate across the spiritual and political spectru...

Clark Gable stars in this propaganda short about the Officers Candidate School of the Army Air Force...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Engineer Dr Hugh Hunt revisits the little-known story of the First World War's Blitz, when the Zeppe...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

During the Second World War, women were for the first time allowed to work as war correspondents. Ba...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...