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.

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

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

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

The smallest of sparks can lead to the largest of explosions. Such is the case of the Atomic Bomb an...

A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions...

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

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

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

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

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

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

The story about Chornobyl area, all around the world we know of the disaster in 1986. The film may b...

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

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...