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.

Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist governm...

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themsel...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontaineble...
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benj...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...

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

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...

The American Southwest holds a dark legacy as the place where nuclear weapons were invented and buil...

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

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

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

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

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

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