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.

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

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of al...

Hoping to become a great singer in Germany, a young dreamer named Ernst Schrämli finds himself drawn...

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

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

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations,...

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

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

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...

This short documentary is an ode to the thrills and excitement of cycling. Including highlights from...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

Caitlyn Jenner's unlikely path to Olympic glory was inspirational. But her more challenging road to ...

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...