Over 2000 Union soldiers, passengers and crew were crammed aboard the steamboat Sultana, licensed to carry 376. Graft, greed, overcrowding, a poorly maintained boat, and the Mississippi River was swollen with spring snowmelt conspired together to create a disaster. On April 27, 1865, the boat’s boilers exploded, causing the worst maritime disaster in US history.

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

When the young republic of The Netherlands is attacked by England, France and Germany and faces its ...

In the summer of 1863, General Robert E. Lee leads the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia into Ge...

The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is sav...

Follows a soldier trying to gain recognition for comrades who died in 1948, at a turning point in th...

In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wou...

During the heat of battle in the midst of the Civil War, a beguilingly innocent colt is born to Unio...

Follow a group of international journalists into the heart of the once cosmopolitan city of Sarajevo...

The meaty saga of Burger Baron, a rogue fast-food chain with mysterious origins and a cult following...

Blood Diamonds is a made-for-TV documentary series, originally broadcast on the History Channel, tha...

Combining modern footage with home movies and interviews, filmmaker María Casado's life is explored,...

Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...

It is El Salvador, 1989, three years before the end of a brutal civil war that took 75,000 lives. Ma...

A hardened mercenary in the Foreign Legion begins to find his own humanity when confronted with atro...

An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum ...

What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into ...

A Nazi propaganda film made to promote anti-Semitism among the German people. Newly-shot footage of ...

The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisi...

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...

Nick is a writer in New York when he gets posted to a bureau in Greece. He has waited 30 years for t...