The beautiful and dangerous lesbian slave trader Druscilla practices all the customs of Ancient Rome...
The story of an unruly class of bright, funny history students at a Yorkshire grammar school in purs...
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the vi...
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
In 1965 Alabama, an 11 year old girl is touched by a speech by Martin Luther King, Jr. and becomes a...
50 years after the death of General De Gaulle, this film retraces his life, from his birth in 1890 t...
The mavericks who pioneered the modern pit stop made it a raceday staple that takes less than two se...
Since its inception in 1931, Mahishasuramardini has been one of the most popular programmes in Benga...
Based on one of the major literary texts survived from the Middle Kingdom, the classical period of E...
In 1885 the British army invaded Burma and deposed its King. He died in exile, ending a thousand yea...
Doomed attempt to get to California in 1846. More than just a riveting tale of death, endurance and ...
Dan Snow, Dr Alice Roberts and Dr Albert Lin investigate a series of earth-shattering discoveries at...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
In 1910, the Pennsylvania Railroad successfully accomplished the enormous engineering feat of buildi...
The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
Antarctica: A Frozen History takes a look at the history and stories of the human explorations in th...
During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...
St. Joseph Fort: Principality of Pontinha, the diamond that illuminates the Atlantic Pearl.
Cologne is the largest city that the G.I.s will take during the war. Nazi propaganda has declared th...
Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...