Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as a grand showcase for a Germany that was athletic, peaceful and rejuvenated. The violence and hate that until then had reigned in the streets of Berlin suddenly vanished. Adolf Hitler became the triumphant host of European countries he would soon try to invade or face in a deadly global conflict.
The 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia will be the first ever to be held in a subtropical resort....
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supre...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...
2500 years ago, in India, Siddhartha was born as a prince of the Shakya clan, but he gives up his po...
This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in ...
A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 ...
Spanish Civil War, May, 1938. Four villages in Castellón, Benassal, Albocàsser, Ares del Maestrat an...
To recover a silver lion ornament for singer Emma Bunton Tim travels back to the court of Henry Vlll...
Citizens across Europe who used to belong to the lower middle class have fallen into poverty. An in-...
Muggsy Bogues, the shortest player in NBA history, lives his life by the motto "always believe," and...
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
Three Indonesian women break records by becoming the first of their nation to medal in archery at th...
Sun Valley provides the backdrop to this story of a downhill ski racer who seeks to make a comeback ...
Warm, poetic, educational, and emotional story will paint for us the phenomenon of Dražen Petrović, ...