Virginia Woolf said that Homer's epic poem the Odyssey was 'alive to every tremor and gleam of existence'. Following the magical and strange adventures of warrior king Odysseus, inventor of the idea of the Trojan horse, the poem can claim to be the greatest story ever told. Now British poet Simon Armitage goes on his own Greek adventure, following in the footsteps of one of his own personal heroes. Yet Simon ponders the question of whether he even likes the guy.

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Papyrology expert Margaret Mountford goes in search of the truth behind the legend of Sappho, the mo...

Friends, contemporaries and even enemies of Alexander the Great gather in a tent to tell his tale th...

The documentary shows the types of the four seasons, when the story returns to the capital of Kyoto ...

Kraftwerk's vision of a keyboard-driven world of clicking metronomic rhythms and digitised sound bit...

Seventy years on, brothers Colin and Ewan McGregor take viewers through the key moments of the Battl...

An original documentary, this film contains previously classified footage provided by the Defense De...

Inside the dramatic search for a cure to ME/CFS (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome)...

Today, we see a new style of feminism springing up everywhere - young, provocative and radical. To g...

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early sta...

The Portuguese Revolution (1974-75) seen through the eyes of some of the most important photographer...

For over 1,000 years, chariots were indispensable weapons in ancient China. The art of chariot drivi...

In this filmed version of cult film director John Waters' popular one-man show, the Pink Flamingos a...
Dragan Wende has lived in Berlin since the '70s and has seen the city change through the years. His ...