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 rockumentary-style presidential portrait shows how Jimmy Carter reinvigorated a post-Watergate ...

On the same day that Stalin was buried, Sergei Prokofiev's funeral took place completely unnoticed. ...

For the first time, survivors talk about life after the camps. How does one return to a life that wa...

Two boys are made to play a game of snakes and ladders that may cost them their lives

When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircra...

A racing greyhound is deserted and has to learn to live on her own. Finally she is taken in by a she...

A reluctant serial killer grapples with his base desires and longs for his own death, as a small tow...
In 1990, a teenage girl falsely accused of drug use is held against her will and must escape a cult-...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...

A jaded lawyer wastes an afternoon trying to figure out if a dim-witted government employee has ever...

The story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protestor...

This historical drama tells the story of Qin Shihuang, who unified China's vast territory and declar...

A portrait of a formidable political figure, unraveling the contrasting facets of an iron-fisted tyr...

During the 2006 World Cup qualifying match between Iran and Bahrain, numerous young women are caught...

The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...

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

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations,...