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.

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

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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

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

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

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

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...

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

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...