The heart of Islam beats on the Arabian Peninsula. For there lies Mecca, the holy city of the Muslims. Almost 100 years ago, one of the peninsula's many clans founded a kingdom there: Saudi Arabia. The rule of the Al Saud is based on a pact that combined, and still combines, strict religious zeal with political calculation.

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

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

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

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

A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with t...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

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

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

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

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

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

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

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

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

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Gree...