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.

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

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

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

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

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

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

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

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

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

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

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

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

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.

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

Assigned to oversee the development of the atomic bomb, Gen. Leslie Groves is a stern military man d...

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

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...