A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. Part one spans the event until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all authority and was imprisoned). Part two carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794.

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Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

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A murder in Paris’ Louvre Museum and cryptic clues in some of Leonardo da Vinci’s most famous painti...

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow rec...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

Disciplined Italian composer Antonio Salieri becomes consumed by jealousy and resentment towards the...

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can sho...

Paris, 1960s. Momo, a resolute and independent Jewish teenager who lives with his father, a sullen a...

A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.