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.

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

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

For two thousand years, caravans traveled from Xian in China along the Silk Road to Istanbul, a hub ...

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this docu...

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...
A short biography of life of St Thomas More. Contains clips from the 1966 feature film "A Man For A...

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

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

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...

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

Fukushima's Minami-soma has a ten-centuries-long tradition of holding the Soma Nomaoi ("chasing wild...

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

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Jap...