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?
This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in ...
This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...
The Mediterranean. Because people have been travelling there for thousands of years, it is believed ...
Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the gui...
Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never be...
Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...
Director Guy Hamilton and several of the stars of Agatha Christie's "Evil Under The Sun" walk you th...
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular ...
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),...
Working from the text of James Baldwin’s unfinished final novel, director Raoul Peck creates a medit...
Jacques Cousteau's 1942 plunge into the Mediterranean sea
In northern Peru, the unprecedented archaeological discovery of the largest known mass child sacrifi...
Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...
A biographical film about cinematic illusionist Georges Méliès featuring Méliès’s widow, Jeanne d’Al...
Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...