In 79 A.D., Mount Vesuvius erupted, killing 2,000 people. This documentary asks what happened next as experts explore Ancient Rome's crisis management.

How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black...

Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital...

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

Rascar Capac, the sinister creature featured on Hergé's album The Seven Crystal Balls (1948), has le...

Filmed in IMAX, a young Mayan boy who lives close to the ruins becomes acquainted with an archaeolog...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

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

Move over, King Tut: There's a new pharaoh on the scene. A team of top archaeologists and forensics ...

Drama-led documentary following the life of Signe, an orphaned Chief's daughter, who, driven by reve...

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

What killed King Tutankhamun? Ever since his spectacular tomb was discovered, the boy king has been ...