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.

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

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

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

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

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

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

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

A dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
At the end of the Victorian era, E. W. Barton-Wright combined jiujitsu, kickboxing, and stick fighti...