Television series Golden Sixties examines new insights into Czech and Slovak cinema of the 1960s and the role of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Each...

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving...

The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by...

Recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.

The Lost World of Communism is a three-part British documentary series which examines the legacy of Communism twenty years on from the fall of the...

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly...

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India,...

China's history of the last 200 years seems like a boomerang, returning to the West what it once unleashed. The series reveals how devastating the...

China: The Making of a Nation is the story of the painful transformation of the vast Qing Empire into the Chinese nation after the 1911 revolution....

Communism spread to all of the continents of the word, lasting through four generations and over seven decades. Hundreds of millions of men and women...

The best in the performing arts from across America and around the world including a diverse programming portfolio of classical music, opera, popular...

An in-depth look at the history and pop cultural significance of horror films.

The science of living and the randomness of death are combined with a dash of Darwinism. Forensic experts, pathologists, toxicologists,...

Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.

This daring original series stars postmodern bad boys of magic Penn & Teller as they question many of our culture's most cherished and widely held...

Motoring programme featuring reviews of and reports about cars of all types.

A worldwide guided tour of the greatest movies ever made and the story of international cinema through the history of cinematic innovation.

Our Urban Myths are stories that have been passed down over time and have now become part of urban folklore. But are they true? We take a slightly...

Since it began in 1983, Frontline has been airing public-affairs documentaries that explore a wide scope of the complex human experience. Frontline's...

Steve Martin is one of the most beloved and enigmatic figures in entertainment. Dive into his extraordinary story from two distinct points of...

Morgan Freeman presents his quest in order to find how most religions perceive life after death, what different civilizations thought about the act...

The history of the sport of baseball in America, told through archival photos, film footage, and the words of those who contributed to the game in...