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.
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital...

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

Nikola Tesla is considered the father of our modern technological age and one of the most mysterious...

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

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

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...

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

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

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

This short documentary depicts the search, discovery and authentication of the only known Norse sett...

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

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...