Morro do Castelo was chosen by the Portuguese to found Rio de Janeiro city. It was an important historical and architectural reference. Despite its relevance, the hill was destroyed by urban reforms aimed to promote real state speculation.

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...

1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...

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

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

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

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

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

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

Merata Mita, Leon Narbey and Gerd Pohlmann’s powerful documentary Bastion Point: Day 507 depicts the...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...