The Jehovah’s Witnesses are a religious group with eight million followers in multiple nations, including Australia. A knock on the door and an earnest offer to share their teachings is the only interaction most people will have with this god-fearing organisation. Few would know the extreme nature of their beliefs. The conduct of the religious group came under scrutiny in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Oscar-winning filmmaker Julia Reichert reflects on the social, economic and personal forces that led...

Melvyn Bragg explores the dramatic story of William Tyndale and his mission to translate the Bible i...

On January 7th 2005, 29 year old Rick Rodriguez murdered his former nanny and then killed himself on...

Why are there so many ghosts on the island of Jamaica? Why is the island so notoriously haunted by t...

The novohispanic equestrian statue of Charles IV of Spain is relocated in Mexico city.

In the Makarenko public elementary school in the Paris outskirts, children want to learn and to be c...

Few comedians can stir up controversy like the legendary Paul Mooney -- writer for Richard Pryor, cr...

Amid shifting times, two women kept their decades-long love a secret. But coming out later in life c...

The posthumous ceremony to honor Mexico's national anthem's authors.

In times of conflict, a companion can be the final thread linking one to human connection. In Call o...

A documentary on gay, lesbian, and transgender Muslims across the Muslim and Western worlds.

After Dan Brown's publishing phenomenon The Da Vinci Code was cleared of plagiarism charges, this do...

Italy, from the '50s to the present day, told through the eyes of generations of children captured i...

Dr Martin Lings, a writer and scholar revered all over the world, performed the Hajj, or pilgrimage ...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he und...

For over 100 years, Hollywood cinema has crafted the ultimate "villain"- the Indian, as they were la...