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.

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

For more than a decade, Reichsmarschall Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's right-hand man during the in...

The Tale of Genji Museum in Uji City, Kyoto will be airing a short film blending history and fantasy...

Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...

I go to Movieland at least once a week, every week, for the last five years to sink some quarters in...

Lissette's favorite aunt Adriana, who lives in Australia, is arrested in 2007 while visiting her fam...

India’s first underwater war film tries to decode the mystery behind the sinking of Pakistani submar...

Sport and politics most definitely do mix in this gripping look back at a brutal and turbulent time ...

Esma, Berk and Hasan are three people who try to escape the troubles of life with the help of a vide...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood i...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

Mothers and doctors speak out about the grim reality of life in the five years following the Chernob...

In the 1990s many people in Kurdistan were taken into custody and interrogated under torture; their ...

The Hobbit Enigma examines one of the greatest controversies in science today: what did scientists f...

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...