In 1968, art students Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey “Po” Powell made a trippy photo collage for their musician friends Syd, David and Roger. The resulting album and album cover, A Saucerful of Secrets, helped launch two careers: that of Pink Floyd, one of the 70s megabands, and of Hipgnosis, which, over the course of the next 25 years, designed a stream of iconic album covers.

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

A montage of newscasts tracing the events of the "damned war" and the German invasion of 1940.

Ivanhoe Martin arrives in Kingston, Jamaica, looking for work and, after some initial struggles, lan...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

San Francisco Bay is home to various shark species. Alcatraz guards made sure the prisoners knew it,...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

Eric Leiser displays his boundless creativity in this short collection; A stunning compilation of wo...

New York, June 3, 1968. Valerie Solanas enters the Factory, Andy Warhol's studio, and fires three sh...

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history ofYellow Springs, Ohio o...

ABBA's 1979 tour of North America and Europe, with emphasis on performances at Wembley Arena, London...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

Tadao Ando, a self-taught architect, proposes an international architecture that he believes can onl...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...