Considered the finest example of Byzantine architecture in the world, Hagia Sophia was constructed on a scale unprecedented in human history. Built in the amazingly short time of five years, it bears witness to an amazing scientific knowledge and a rich cultural heritage from the past.
Sir John Franklin set off from England in 1845 with two ships and 129 men to be the first to navigat...
Ireland, June 1944. The crucial decision about the right time to start Operation Overlord on D-Day c...
Western Freemasonry and Eastern communists won WW2, leading to a secret holy war aiming for a one-wo...
The Richardson Olmsted Campus, a former psychiatric center and National Historic Landmark, is seeing...
Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.
An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As t...
In 2001, Jimmy Wales published the first article on Wikipedia, a collaborative effort that began wit...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th...
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
The first transatlantic communications cable, traversing the ocean floor from Valentia Island, Count...
Tells the extraordinary story of Anita Lasker-Wallfisch who, along with other victims of Auschwitz, ...
The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a...
It happened more or less by accident; the people who made it happen were amateurs; and for the most ...
Rising sea levels and sinking land threaten to destroy Venice. Leading scientists and engineers batt...
Profiles the double Oscar winner, who helmed some of the most well-respected movies of all time, via...
Exclusively created with period engravings, this animated feature explores the Franco-Prussian War o...
Celebrating the splendor and grandeur of the great cinemas of the United States, built when movies w...