How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create a secret military base located in the far north of Greenland: Camp Century, almost a real town with roads and houses, a nuclear plant to provide power and silos to house missiles aimed at the Soviet Union.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A destitute Frank Sinatra pursues sultry starlet Ava Gardner while campaigning for the lead in 'From...

A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret...

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle—a bike...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Ac...

19 years after the dropping of atomic bombs in Japan, the Olympic Games of 1964 took place in Tokyo....

The adventures and exploits of Jean-Baptiste Charcot (1867-1936), an intrepid scientist and explorer...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

Herbert Stempel's transformation into an unexpected television personality unfolds as he secures vic...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

During the ill-fated Hungarian revolution of 1956, Karcsi Szabo, star player on the water polo team,...

A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

Katherine Watson is a recent UCLA graduate hired to teach art history at the prestigious all-female ...

At the height of the space race, three U.S. astronauts are tapped as the first Apollo crew. With daz...