Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford’s Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in on his assassin, the twenty-six-year-old actor, John Wilkes Booth.
Chronos has no actors or dialog. The film covers the history of civilization, from pre-history to Egypt to Rome to Late Antiquity to the rise of Western Europe in the Middle Ages to the Renaissance to the modern era.
For years, adventurers from all over the world have searched for the mythic paradise of Shangri-La and have found little… until now. Explore sacred Buddhist caves and witness as experts look back into time as they uncover centuries-old manuscripts and stunning wall paintings that have remained undisturbed for years.
The film focuses on the historical and future significance of American manned space flight and the importance of the United States remaining on the forefront of space discovery. ‘The 2nd Assassination of JFK’ commemorates the Florida Coast’s pivotal role in human space discovery.
An absorbing and chilling documentary about the National Socialist aesthetic, and how attempts to create the Aryan Ideal caused the extermination of millions.
In the closing months of World War II, defeat was imminent for the Germans. However the Nazis did not intend to go down without a fight and without inflicting as much damage as possible on the Allies. To do so, they planned to employ an increasingly deadly array of military weapons – from ballistic missiles to rocket planes to, perhaps, the atomic bomb.
This documentary examines the ancient ruins of Chaco Canyon, built between 850 and 1150 A.D. in northwest New Mexico.
Civilisation is a 13 episode television documentary series, hosted by Kenneth Clark, outlining the history of Western art, architecture and philosophy since the Dark Ages.
The generation of Nazis who fought during World War 2 is almost gone, their lives, their actions, and their crimes soon to be consigned to history forever. This sense of urgency, and of time running out, underpins The Last Nazis – a landmark documentary series about surviving war criminals living in the 21st century.
The story of the secret, decades long clean up operation of radioactive matter from the nuclear power plant disaster in Chernobyl.
Hanging coffins is an ancient funeral custom found only in Asia. An excavation is set in motion, in order to understand the culture behind the tribes who made them hundreds of years ago.
This documentary looks into a future where our civilization has collapsed and asks the question: “Why did our civilization collapse?”
History books traditionally depict the pre-Columbus Americas as a pristine wilderness where small native villages lived in harmony with nature. But scientific evidence tells a very different story: When Columbus stepped ashore in 1492, millions of people were already living there.
In 1931, two white women stepped off from a box car in Paint Rock, Alabama to make a shocking accusation: they had been raped by nine black teenagers on the train. So began one of the most significant legal fights of the twentieth century.
In 1998 German engineer Tilman Walterfang found a shipwreck from the 9th Century blanketed by intact gold, silver and ceramic items. As we uncover clues and reveal the story of the wreck, reenactments transport us back in time to an age of the legendary Sinbad the Sailor, when vicious seas ravaged wooden boats like matchsticks.
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