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.

A vivid portrait of a generation of Hong Kongers committed to creating a new more democratic Hong Ko...

In 1944, two prisoners miraculously escaped from Auschwitz. They told the world of the horror of the...

Were the eleven official witnesses—twelve if you include Joseph Smith himself—of the Book of Mormon ...

The moral dimension of humanity's interaction with nonhuman animals and the industries that profit f...
Huw Edwards presents a documentary examining the relationship between Victorian prime ministers Benj...

Describes the many by-products resulting from the carbonisation of coal.

The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new er...

On September 11, 2001, the unimaginable transpired when devastating attacks on the World Trade Cente...

NYPD cop John McClane's plan to reconcile with his estranged wife is thrown for a serious loop when,...

An American doctor and his wife, a former singing star, witness a murder while vacationing in Morocc...

The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publish...

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

Part architectural genius, part kitsch fairytale, Neuschwanstein Castle is closely linked to the tra...

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

A full-time carer plots a daring heist from the Houses of Parliament, in a bid to thwart devastating...

Renowned film star Joan Crawford's abuse towards Christina, her adopted daughter, intensifies as her...

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