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 ...

Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.

This documentary by Theo Kamecke from 1970 gives an in-depth and profound look at the Apollo 11 miss...

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

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused...

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

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

When the first railroads were built some two hundred years ago, they brought about a revolutionary c...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...

Using cutting-edge scanning technology and state-of-the-art CGI, a team of experts creates the first...

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

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
An epic documentary of rise and fall of Ustasha regime in Croatia.

Billions of years ago, Venus may have harbored life-giving habitats similar to those on the early Ea...

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