The animated documentary Proteus explores the nineteenth century's engagement with the undersea world through science, technology, painting, poetry and myth. The central figure of the film is biologist and artist Ernst Haeckel, who found in the depths of the sea an ecstatic and visionary fusion of science and art.
The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
He is the talk of the town, the most romantic figure of decadent Parisian nights. When his lungs sta...
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...
Commentator-comic Bill Maher plays devil's advocate with religion as he talks to believers about the...
A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
The life of Franz Kafka in a series of independent chapters: from his birth in 19th-century Prague t...
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after ha...
In 1843, despite the fact that Dickens is a successful writer, the failure of his latest book puts h...
The small town agog Hussars entry. Love between cornet and the young actress suddenly faces intrigue...
With a divine answer to a humble prayer at age 14, Joseph Smith began to fulfill his inspired missio...
The story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy living in Bologna, Italy, who in 1858, after being ...
Featuring Michael Pollan and based on his best-selling book, this special takes viewers on an explor...
Nova and National Geographic present exclusive access to an astounding discovery of ancient fossil h...
Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fi...
David Attenborough takes us on a guided tour through the secret world of plants, to see things no un...
A documentary that explores the natural world of the sea, from the single-celled organism to more co...
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suici...
To Walk Invisible takes a new look at the extraordinary Brontë family, telling the story of these re...