To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that defined this radical religious revolution in England.

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

A.D. 1519: When Huldrych Zwingli begins preaching as a priest in Zurich, the plague affects him. Loo...

Gouge - a documentary tracing The Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yo...

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

Recreating festivities from Henry VIII's era, Lucy Worsley dresses, eats, drinks, sings and parties ...

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, do...

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past ...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Why has letterpress printing survived? Irreplaceable knowledge of the historic craft is in danger of...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...