The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea tunnel ever constructed? We hear from the men and women, who built this engineering marvel. Massive tunnel boring machines gnawed their way through rock and chalk, digging not one tunnel but three; two rail tunnels and a service tunnel. This was a project that would be privately financed; not a penny of public money would be spent on the tunnel. Business would have to put up all the money and take all the risks. This was also a project that was blighted by flood, fire, tragic loss of life and financial bust ups. Today, it stands as an engineering triumph and a testament to what can be achieved when two nations, Britain and France put aside their historic differences and work together.

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

One of the most recognizable voices in all of modern day music, Dua Lipa quickly rose to fame. Her c...

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

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

This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...

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

John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

The plot of Marine Express can be described in two parts. The first part focuses on the people board...

Madame Simone Renaud witnessed the liberation of France on June 6, 1944 from a very unique viewpoint...

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

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

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...