Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into oblivion today. Unjustly so. Moving archive images, documentary footage and graphic novels lead us back to the time of Friedrich Engels, who shaped the Communist movement like no other.

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

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

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

Aaron Eliyahu, a Jewish man, travels to a small village called Mala, Kerala in search of his Jewish ...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...

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

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

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

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...