For eight centuries, between the 9th and 1st century BC, the Etruscans, inhabitants of the Italian peninsula, were one of the most powerful peoples of the Mediterranean basin, and when they disappeared they left behind impressive necropolises, vestiges of sanctuaries and even entire cities. How did they attain such power? How far did they extend their dominion and influence? What were the causes of their decline?

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

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

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

What is true and what is false in the hideous stories spread about the controversial figure of the R...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

In late 19th-century Sicily, the noble Uzeda family—whose lineage dates back to the ancient viceroys...

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

Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad....

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that opera...
An epic documentary of rise and fall of Ustasha regime in Croatia.

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

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...