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.

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

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The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...

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We Remember Marilyn. Marilyn Monroe transforms from Norma Jean, a cuddly teenager, into the most rec...

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...
This is the full length documentary Secrets of Llewellyn Park, the story of America's oldest planned...

This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-sevent...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This dipl...

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

The Xbox Originals documentary that chronicles the fall of the Atari Corporation through the lens of...

Documentary looking at a century of cycling. Commissioned to mark the arrival of the 2014 Tour de Fr...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

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

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