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.

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

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

This documentary explores Life and Art of Queen bassist John Deacon.

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

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

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

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

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

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...

The vivid and inspiring story of British film icon Michael Caine's personal journey through 1960s sw...

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

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...

This one hour documentary examines the life of the famed Sharp Shooter and Wild West performer, Anni...

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

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...