The Erie Canal was an engineering marvel in its time and remains so today. This documentary travels from Palmyra to the Genesee River, stopping along the way to visit the people and places that make the canal so special. Canal historian Thomas Grasso offers insight into the canal’s past while the Golden Eagle String Band provides the music track.

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

February 8, 2024 will mark ten years since Els Borst was murdered. This documentary highlights the r...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

'Local Heroes' combines exhaustive research, rare archival film footage, fascinating still photograp...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

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

The First Year tells the inside story of Jamie Driscoll’s first 12 months as the new North of Tyne M...

This World War II documentary rests on an unusual thesis: it argues that, in the wake of Pearl Harbo...

The earliest surviving motion-picture film, and believed to be one of the very first moving images e...

As Australian cinema broke through to international audiences in the 1970s through respected art hou...

A compilation of conferences/debates between renowned designers, environmental activists, and studen...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

Chengumani is commander-in-chief in the 18th-century Coorg region of present-day Karnataka. He becom...

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...

The film Mečiar is the confession of the young director Tereza Nvotová about Vladimír Mečiar and the...

In 1928, the city of Curitiba went through a rare snowstorm. To this day, it is the harshest snowsto...

Jeff Bezos is not only one of the richest men in the world, he has built a business empire that is w...