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...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

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

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...

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

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

Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolit...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

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

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...

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

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

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...