Overview

In the 1870s Victorian politicians debated the virtues of constructing a 20km-long railway through Melbourne's east, simply to circumvent a...

Black holes stand at the limit of what we can know. To explore that edge of knowledge, the Event Horizon Telescope links observatories across the...

Long before Columbus, the Maya established one of the most highly developed civilizations of their time in the jungles of Mexico and Central America....

Today, we see a new style of feminism springing up everywhere - young, provocative and radical. To get their message across, these women have decided...

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.

An unlikely team of activists and innovators hatches a bold mission to save endangered species.

New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back...

In a studio setting, Stephen Hawking, Arthur C. Clarke and Carl Sagan (who joins them via satellite) discuss the Big Bang theory, God, our existence...

Relive humankind's incredible accomplishment of walking on the moon in this program that presents highlights of Walter Cronkite and the CBS News...

This film examines Trotsky, the revolutionary; venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world,...

The Legend of the Paraguay War Legend tells that during the Paraguay War (1864-1870), families that lived near the border and soldiers who were...