The exciting story of the splitting of the atom, a scientific breakthrough of incalculable importance that ushered in the nuclear age, has a dark side: the many events in which people were exposed to radiation, both intentionally and by accident.

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

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

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

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

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

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

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

The silence behind the genocide of the Rohingyas in Burma.

In a quiet forest, a sign warns of radiation hazard. “Is this the past or the future?” muses the mas...

Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying...

For over 1,000 years, chariots were indispensable weapons in ancient China. The art of chariot drivi...