A retrospective on the great election battles of the past in the United States: the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, the first ever to be televised; the Republican campaign of 1972, which proved to be the starting point for the Watergate scandal; and the electoral strategy of Barack Obama in 2008, the first election to fully exploit the potential of the Internet.
For twelve years he stood as America's 32nd President, a man who overcame the ravages of polio to pu...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, ...

The Medal of Honor is awarded for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his or her li...

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, woul...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

On August 7th 1974, French tightrope walker Philippe Petit stepped out on a high wire, illegally rig...

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polari...

Martin Scorsese's documentary intertwines footage from The Band's incredible farewell tour with prob...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...

What does the world's richest man, dedicated chaos agent, and Donald Trump's new best buddy want out...

A Danish writer travels to Mexico with the purpose of locating a mysterious Apache tribe that ferven...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...