A powerful documentary starring Morgan Freeman about the genesis of The Blues in the South and the music spreading around the world. Morgan Freeman shares his story of his experience of growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi and his love for the Blues.

The rebellious Thracian Spartacus, born and raised a slave, is sold to Gladiator trainer Batiatus. A...

Slavery has always been part of Sudan's history, but in recent years it has become a new means in Su...

BBC News Arabic's undercover investigation exposes the people in Kuwait breaking local and internati...

What is possible when we have guaranteed money to meet our basic needs? No requirements. No stipulat...

Documentary about reggae in Jamaica and its history. Filmed in 1979.

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

Set in the Mayan civilization, when a man's idyllic presence is brutally disrupted by a violent inva...

A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presi...

A struggling band find themselves attached to a fugitive and drawn into a series of old feuds and lo...

A guitar playing car thief meets an autistic savant piano player, and together they transform a grou...
African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slav...

Blind blues musician Paul Pena is perhaps best known for his song "Jet Airliner". In 1993, Pena hear...

Based on a True Story, we journey back to 1980 to see John King, a 10yr old African American boy, se...

Ella Fitzgerald visited Australia back in 1960. Gracefully stepping up to the microphone for the cel...

Granting unprecedented access, Joan Armatrading tells her life story, both as a songwriter and as a ...

The Allman Brothers Band were initially not happy with the first two releases, but they were able to...
"Explores the 400-year era of the transatlantic slave trade, when millions of Africans were kidnappe...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-know...

Green Flake, a southern slave, joins Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as a child. Later o...