Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a closer look into the historical propaganda show.

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that opera...

During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team,...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

The first blitzkrieg, Hitler's invasion of Poland, is traced in this original Nazi propaganda film f...
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...
The order comes in the summer of 1941 from propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels himself: The best ani...

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

Sexual minorities were oppressed, imprisoned and murdered by the Nazis. Paragraph 175 criminalized h...

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...

When college coach Herb Brooks is hired to helm the 1980 U.S. men's Olympic hockey team, he brings a...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

Discover the little-known story of a group of college basketball players who were tasked with prepar...

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

The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Cauc...