South Africa, July 11th, 1963. Several members of the African National Congress, an organization declared illegal, are arrested in Rivonia, a country house near Johannesburg. The detainees, along with Nelson Mandela, imprisoned since 1962, are charged with serious crimes for their radical activism against the apartheid regime.
A portrait of Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo (1955-2017), a witness of the Tiananmen Square massacre (198...
President Kennedy's birthday celebration was held at the third Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962...
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three...
The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike...
Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational mod...
Following the death of his wife, Ip Man travels to San Francisco to ease tensions between the local ...
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed...
A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on bot...
For seven years, award-winning Chinese-American filmmaker Nanfu Wang follows Rosa María Payá, daught...
In 1960s San Francisco, bright and talented catholic school girl Celina Guerrera survives a difficul...
PBS documentary examining the work of Jack Paar.
The armies of Fascist Italy conquered Addis Ababa, capital of Abyssinia, in May 1936, thus culminati...
During apartheid in South Africa in the 1970s, two lovers -- a 16-year-old Caucasian girl and a 20-y...
Is the story of a generation of thieves who achieved their greatest victories in the sixties; their ...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...