When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, his editor James Gordon Bennett sends him to Africa to find Dr. David Livingstone, the missing Scottish missionary. Stanley finds Livingstone ("Dr. Livingstone, I presume.") blissfully doling out medicine and religion to the happy natives. His story is at first disbelieved.

In the latter half of the 19th century, gold is discovered in the Black Hills, sacred land of the La...

There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by...

In 1936, two female artists (a singer and a pianist) visit the city of Lushnja, which was very conse...

The life of Katherine of Alexandria. Constantine joins the Roman army to find his missing childhood ...

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

A dog that helped soldiers in Afghanistan returns to the U.S. and is adopted by his handler's family...

The hobby detectives “The Three Investigators” want to take a little break. So they take advantage o...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

Folklore collectors and con artists, Jake and Will Grimm, travel from village to village pretending ...

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and B...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

Eric O'Neill, a low-level surveillance expert with the FBI, believes he is accomplishing his dream o...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...