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.

A film made for television, based on the book of the same name by Libera Carlier. A Flemish family d...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

In a Maori settlement, Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha composes the famous chant "Ka Mate", also known...
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benj...

A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his br...

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

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

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

A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the or...

A rainy evening in the harbor of Antwerp. A man named Laarmans is on his way home even though he doe...

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

A hard-living dockworker finds religion until his brother is murdered.

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

A look at contemporary Paris through the lens of theories and ideologies of the past two centuries, ...

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