Shock Docs: This is Halloween combines an impressive set of experts/historians and stars from many of the Travel Channel’s most popular series such as Ghost Nation, Destination Fear, Ghost Brothers, Kindred Spirits, Expedition Bigfoot, and The Holzer Files to reminisce on not only the history/origins of the holiday, but also recall their favorite memories of the celebrations, costumes, and scares.
Pianist Richard Glazier offers a unique view of Broadway and Hollywood music using fascinating inter...

In a Maori settlement, Ngati Toa leader Te Rauparaha composes the famous chant "Ka Mate", also known...

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

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

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...

The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous ...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This dipl...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

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

In the early 70s Greek cinema entered in a period of crisis. One of its aspects was said "crisis of ...

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

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

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...

This feature-length film tells the story of the passion between Marie de l’Incarnation, a mid-sevent...

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

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the or...