An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

New York Times reporters Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor break one of the most important stories in a g...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

In August 1969, Charles Manson's followers killed seven people on his orders. Why? Explore a conspir...

Follow the launch of Lamborghini’s career as a manufacturer of tractors, a creator of military vehic...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

Halifax, 1863: Miss Lewly arrives in Halifax to search for Lt Pinson, with whom she is madly in love...

Centers on the unlikely relationship between Ann Atwater, an outspoken civil rights activist, and C....

Gotō Matabei is the most able and fierce samurai of the Kuroda clan. However, he gradually dislikes ...

Because of the power of love, the last year of Franz Kafka's life becomes his happiest. The well-kno...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...