Over the centuries, Mont Saint-Michel, an extraordinary island located in the delta of the Couesnon River, in Normandy, France, a place floating between the sea and the sky, has been a sanctuary, an abbey, a fortress and a prison. But how was this architectural wonder built?
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
Starting in late May 1944, during the German retreat on the Eastern Front, Captain Stransky (Helmut ...
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...
A filmmaker returns to Normandy thirty years after a working on a movie based on a local homicide an...
In Cairo, a German-Egyptian team is searching for traces of the largest temple of the Pharaohs, seek...
Up to one million gladiators are thought to have died in arenas across the Roman Empire. And, althou...
This documentary examines the mysterious practice of mummifying animals in ancient Egypt as research...
An extraordinary journey into the past to that fateful day, June 6, 1944. Relive the event of D-Day ...
It's the most extraordinary feat of engineering in history, and one of the most iconic man-made stru...
May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...
In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 2,000 people. This documentary asks what happened next a...
Spain, 1961. Life in the small village of Torrelobatón, in the province of Valladolid, was turned up...
National Geographic follows archaeologist Ehud Natzer in his discovery of the tomb of Herod the Grea...
To outsiders, Turkmenistan is one of the world's least known countries. For the first time in ten ye...
Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...