Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his life: To unite the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through a Canal in the Isthmus of Panama – without knowing that this will cost him his reputation, thousands of innocent lives and the biggest financial scandal of all time, up to that point: the famous “Scandal of Panama”. Today, the French capital is known as “Paname”.
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psycho...
This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in ...
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...
A building lost in the midst of a 5 000 hectare park, that's the equivalent of the surface of Paris,...
Conceição Tavares is one of the most forceful, critical and original voices of Brazilian economic th...
Revisiting the genre of the road movie in a very diaristic and personal way, the film takes us on bo...
Architecture is often seen from the outside, as an inanimate object represented in still imagery. ‘R...
Explore the revolutionary engineering behind Paris’s iconic landmark. Completed in just over two yea...
A documentary focusing on the rebuilding projects in Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Hawaii, Pacific Ocean. In this heavenly place, one of the most memorable battles of the Second World...
Dramatic retelling of the fateful last voyage of the Nantucket whaleship Essex. When the Essex is at...
Documentary about the two big resources in the North Atlantic, fish and oil, and the impact of their...
1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place...
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...
Deep Blue is a major documentary feature film shot by the BBC Natural History Unit. An epic cinemati...
After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...
This remarkable series of 10 short silent dramas by John M. Stahl, produced by Benjamin Chapin as a ...