
In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

In 1415, in the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the co...

1402. Queen Margrete I has gathered the Nordic kingdoms in a union, ruled through her adopted son, E...

At the turn of the 10th and 11th centuries Boleslav's kingdom fell apart in the fratricidal war betw...

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

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

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

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic pr...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...

In 1375, China was in chaos between Yuan Dynasty and Ming Dynasty. Coryo (an ancient kingdom of Kore...

1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect o...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...