What life was like in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii moments before it was devastated by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in A.D. 79.

What started as a simple tomb became over a 2,000 years history the universal seat of Christendom an...

Luc Bachelot, a researcher with the CNRS, has been directing since 1994 the French archeological mis...

Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers batt...

The temple complex of Banteay Chhmar in Cambodia is half-ruined, but of enchanting beauty. It is the...
Nero is accused of having "fiddled while Rome burned" and remembered for executing his mother and bu...


In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 2,000 people. This documentary asks what happened next a...

For more than 20 years, Maurice & Katia Krafft have traveled the world. From Iceland to Hawaii, from...

A window into Russia, unknown to Western man, and even to many Russians. "Russia - the largest count...

As WWII looms, a wealthy widow hires an amateur archaeologist to excavate the burial mounds on her e...

The film was shot in an old, decrepit building where dozens of guest-workers' families live. The own...

In 79 A.D., Milo, a slave turned gladiator, finds himself in a race against time to save his true lo...

After tragedy strikes a bustling London neighbourhood, disarray ensues, and our hero becomes lost to...

A journey into the wedding night, where an ultra-Orthodox Jewish couple gets to know each other for ...

With more than seven million visitors a year, its massive structure and awesome architecture testify...

David Attenborough brings to life, in unprecedented detail, the last days of the dinosaurs. Palaeon...

With an area three times larger than Pompeii, Baia, about 15 km from Naples and within the volcanic ...

This documentary follows a team of local archaeologists excavating never before explored passageways...