Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.

My grandfather fought alongside Pancho Villa, became Master Mason, was an elected official who repre...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

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

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...

On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty undergro...

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

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

Director Philip Haas and artist David Hockney invite you to join them on a magical journey through C...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

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

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

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

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

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.

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