The port of Hamburg has experienced and survived many things: epidemics, fires and floods, wars and destruction - but always also reconstruction. This documentary tells the story of how a small jetty on the Elbe became the global port we know today over the course of eight centuries. It is the story of one of Europe's largest ports, its people and their ideas.
Documentary looking at the life and career of 1930s film star Leslie Howard. It features exclusive h...
Astronauts who have seen the Earth from space have often described the 'Overview Effect', an experie...
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the t...
Pianist Richard Glazier offers a unique view of Broadway and Hollywood music using fascinating inter...
In 1898, a Minnesota farmer clearing trees from his field uprooted a large stone covered with myster...
Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...
This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontaineble...
The story of the rise of Alexander Stravisky, a brilliant and seductive crook, in Paris of the roari...
How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, s...
The life of Vecihi Hürkuş, the first Turkish pilot to shoot down an enemy aircraft during World War ...
This epic story takes place between 1820 and 1860 during the Habsburg Monarchy, and portrays the lif...
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...
Helen Castor presents an in depth and insightful series covering England's early Queens, from the Hi...
Dr. Francis Schaeffer's spectacular series on the rise and decline of Western culture from a Christi...
The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...
This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentiall...
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with severa...
Andrés Bonifacio is celebrated as the father of the Philippines Revolution against Spanish colonial ...
July 1969. America made history and sent the first humans to the moon. High-quality NASA footage and...