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 2007, the Writers Guild of America, the Screenwriters Union, hit an impasse in their contract neg...
Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy was a television special featuring the First Lady ...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together ...
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
As beautiful and sleek as it is deadly, 52 Blocks merits special conservation efforts as the United ...
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...
Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...
As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...
The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film ...
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it...
The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...