
Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the ...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

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

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

In David Grubin's NAPOLEON watch Napoleon's rise from obscurity to victories that made him a hero to...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

A very personal and dynamic meditation on the current global refugee crisis through the eyes and voi...

An enduring myth in U.S. presidential election history is that George H.W. Bush only lost his re-ele...

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

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

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

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

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

Documentary about the Rembrandt Association. In the 19th century, a lot of Dutch art disappeared abr...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...