The history of the potato through the ages—with a focus on European history and a twinkle in its eye

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

In 1860s Britain, a boy inventor finds himself caught in the middle of a deadly conflict over a revo...

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

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

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

A documentary about the concrete sections of the Berlin Wall that have been acquired by institutions...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...

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

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

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

The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel a...

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 ...

When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disg...

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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

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