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.

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

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

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

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

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

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

A look at India's second confidential nuclear test series at Pokhran lead by Dr. APJ Abdul Kalam, du...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

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

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

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

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

Eerie images of landscapes after the Fukushima nuclear disaster shot on black and white 8mm.

Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to me...