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.

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

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, do...

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

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

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

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

Aaron Eliyahu, a Jewish man, travels to a small village called Mala, Kerala in search of his Jewish ...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for contro...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...

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

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...

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

The NFL has staged 48 Super Bowls. Four photographers have taken pictures at every one of them. In K...