Documentary portrays the saga of how Italian Americans went from being outsiders who were stereotyped as gangsters in American movies to insiders in Hollywood who took control of their own stories. Interviews, film clips and home movies from Italian American filmmakers highlight personal experiences and comment on Hollywood's politics and cultural impact.
This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through ...
Images set to a tape recording that slain San Francisco City Supervisor Harvey Milk made in November...
In Columbus' Cursed Colony join two scientific expeditions on a journey that takes you beneath the w...
Using a thermo-camera to reveal long-lost artworks and never-before-seen architectural layers in som...
Sonia Reich- who survived the Holocaust as a child by running and hiding, suddenly believes that she...
This "March of Time" entry examines the many problems, both human and economic, that faced the Allie...
In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state te...
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...
The highlights and newsmakers of 2018 are brought to the fore in this year-end review.
"Mexico begins where the roads end ”. Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tells us about the history of Me...
Music documentary by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
A picture of John F. Kennedy Jr. you've never seen before - new interviews, rare video, intimate new...
Historian David Starkey tells the story of the Protestant Reformation and how it transformed the fac...
An investigation into the fascinating discovery of the first State Bed of Henry VII & Elizabeth of Y...
This short documentary follows historian Kate Taylor as she recounts John Wilkes Booth's final attem...
A documentary on the dark and brutal side of the Samurai warrior clans featuring the life of peasant...
Regular opening times do not apply as we accompany Sir David Attenborough on an after-hours journey ...