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.

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Over the course of 10 months, a camera travels to Buenos Aires, Argentina and Hanover, Germany to me...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

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...

Documentary of the legendary 1985 music festival in Brazil.

Celebrities are interviewed about the social and working lives of Bugs, Daffy, Porky and the rest of...

In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos a...

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

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

During the Napoleonic Wars, when the French have occupied Spain, some Spanish guerrilla soldiers are...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...