On January 20, 1981, 52 members of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were released after 444 days of captivity. Told by those who lived through it, a crisis that traumatized America and upset the political balance in the Middle East.

This is the story of Tehran from the Qajar time (middle of 19th century) to today. Tehran has become...

Califia, the Queen and spirit of California, gives the audience a quick and somewhat romanticized lo...

A 707 aircraft jetliner, en route from Athens to Rome and then to New York City, is hijacked by Leba...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

The Heart of Man is a timeless tale of a father's relentless pursuit of his son -- interwoven with i...

When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor o...

This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey, in which a City Councilman...

Bombs tear through Bombay in 1993, wreaking havoc and polarising the citizens. With perpetrators at ...

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

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...

A Kafkaesque docudrama of an actual case involving a Christchurch small businessman and the New Zeal...

Druids have existed far longer than hitherto assumed, since the 4th century BC. Their traces are fou...

A young woman, who has inherited her grandparents' huge house, a fascinating place full of amazing o...

Pierre Carles questions the privatization of the leading French televisions channel : is it not scan...

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...