Writers and historians including Hilary Mantel and Philippa Gregory revisit the last days of Anne Boleyn, who in 1536 became the first queen in British history to be executed.
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

Bill Nye and Ken Ham debate whether creation is a viable model of origins in today's modern scientif...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

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

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

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...

On June 11th, 1997, Philippe Kahn created the first camera phone solution to share pictures instantl...