Through the eyes of the Narrator and ancient Philosophers of the time, we are taken on a dramatic journey through history; recounting the incredible and exciting dramas, ceremonies, games, and chariot races of the Ancient Greek OLYMPIAD; the Olympic Games of the 5th Century BC.

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

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

Set in the year 2060, it follows a love story as Tokyo's third Olympics draws near. Takeru Oosawa, w...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeatin...

This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events ma...

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

The story of Oedipus' gradual discovery of his primal crime, killing his father and marrying his mot...
The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai and their mission to avenge the death of their master.

The legendary tale of the forty-seven samurai who seek vengeance against the man who caused their ma...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Universally recognized as the greatest female skier ever, Lindsey Vonn went on a remarkable journey ...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...