In 1898, a Minnesota farmer clearing trees from his field uprooted a large stone covered with mysterious runes that tell a story of land acquisition...

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were...

How would it look like, the body of Dom Afonso Henriques, first king of Portugal, tutelary figure, subject to successive mythifications throughout...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's Fascist State in 1974.

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three millennia. They created marvelous works in...

Pickup trucks are essential to the American way of life; manufacturers compete to outsmart, outmaneuver and outlast each other; experts, designers...

Bones of the Buddha is a 2013 television documentary produced by Icon Films and commissioned by WNET/THIRTEEN and ARTE France for the National...

This short film provides highlights from American history, focusing on George Washington's farewell to the troops to the War of 1812.

Astronauts who have seen the Earth from space have often described the 'Overview Effect', an experience that has transformed their perspective of the...

A young man wants to be a female impersonator, but gets mocked in his very first performance by a fierce older woman. He finds out where she lives...

The true story of the official Inquiry into the Titanic disaster. Was a ship called The Californian close enough to have saved them?

Nonfiction filmmaker Jill Morley documents her exploration of the exotic dancer (stripper) experience. Through tactfully selected and edited...

In this National Film Board short, a ballad singer describes a yearly Quebec spectacle when spruce wood moves down a river, spurred by dynamite and...

Tribute is a feature rockumentary about music's strangest subculture: tribute bands. Tribute bands go to extraordinary lengths to re-create the...

A mixed group of prisoners in a concentration camp in North Korea struggle for survival and dignity as best the can, enduring the cruelty of the...

There is a dance in Kurdistan, performed in mourning ceremonies. This tradition has not been performed in many parts of Kurdistan for the last 50...