Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1877, Isabelle left Europe for North Africa at a young age. While there, she consorted with tramps, prostitutes, soldiers, murderers and thieves, at times masquerading as a man in orde.
Houda al-Habash, a conservative Muslim preacher, founded a Qur'an school for girls in Damascus, Syri...
It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
Resorting on a vast archive material of newsreels, photographs, letters, family videos, fiction movi...
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...
THE PERFUMED GARDEN is an exploration of the myths and realities of sensuality and sexuality in Arab...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...
Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...
JEWS excavates a lost world of manners and ritual in home movies shot by several Chicago families fr...
King Lines follows Chris Sharma on his search for the planet's greatest climbs. From South American ...
Edward Said's book Orientalism has been profoundly influential in a diverse range of disciplines sin...
Film inspired by the beauty of medieval tombstones, stećaks, scattered around the mountains of Bosni...
Filmmaker Irene Lusztig unearths a dark family secret in search of answers and reconciliation in her...
Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...