Den här dokumentären tittar närmare på neandertalarna och vad fossiler kan avslöja om deras liv och hur de dog ut.
Vad hände efter att Einstein flytt från nazisternas Tyskland? Det här dokumentärdramat utforskar det plågade geniets sinne med hjälp av arkivmaterial och hans egna ord.
Världens viktigaste film om Förintelsen. Det tog Claude Lanzmann elva år att göra sitt mästerverk, en storslagen berättelse där överlevande, vittnen och bödlar tecknar bilden av nazisternas folkmord på sex miljoner judar under andra världskriget.
Medgar Evers, Malcolm X och Martin Luther King Jr. var alla framträdande människorättskämpar, och de blev alla hänsynslöst lönnmördade. Deras tredje gemensamma nämnare var författaren och vännen James Baldwin. Innan Baldwins död 1987 påbörjade han sin sista bok, en krönika om sina tre vänner och deras tragiska livsöden. Raoul Pecks hyllade film bygger på Baldwins anteckningar och utforskar afroamerikansk historia och hur det är att vara svart i USA i dag.
Egyptian archeologists dig into history, discovering tombs and artifacts over 4,000 years old as they search for a buried pyramid in this documentary.
Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.
Debunking the mythology surrounding the 16th century French prophet, Nostradamus.
Five times, Earth has faced apocalyptic events that swept nearly all life from the face of the planet. What did these prehistoric creatures look like? What catastrophes caused their disappearance? And how did our distant ancestors survive and give rise to the world we know today?
The story of one of the great environmental disasters to befall the United States, and the terrible movie that help bring the catastrophe to light.
The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a young Welshman are all voiced by actors to make AMASHINGA a beautiful and epic explanation of the British invasion of the Zulu Kingdom in 1879.
The director’s mother, Mirka Mora, avoided Auschwitz by one day. On his father’s side many perished in the Holocaust. These facts triggered three visits to Auschwitz by Mora from 2010 to 2014 in an effort to understand and remember.
The sinking of the RMS Titanic remains one of the most enduring and mysterious tragedies of the 20th century. For decades, investigators and amateurs alike have floated theories for why it occurred and who was to blame for the extraordinary loss of life, but no one answer could fully explain what happened. Until now. To mark the 100th anniversary of the infamous disaster, Smithsonian Channel will premiere Titanic's Final Mystery. The two-hour special investigates a century of theories and uncovers astonishing new forensic evidence that proves the most likely theory for the case.
A documentary about the Topaz War Relocation Center, a Japanese internment camp during WWII.
This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth century Europe. It also Interprets the reforms of Martin Luther as a part and/of these conditions as indications of future trends.
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular group of underground fighters in France: those from Eastern Europe. Many were Jews and all had fled their native countries before the war broke out. They were among the most staunch and fearless enemies of fascism, as shown here in personal interviews and memoirs of war-time experiences. But the most famous of these immigrants were 23 who were rounded up among several hundred Parisians in 1943, tried for their activities, and executed -- all were immigrants under the leadership of the Armenian poet Manouchian. After their execution, Paris was papered with posters decrying these 23 martyrs as "foreign communists."
Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a closer look into the historical propaganda show.
By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional account of the life of Adolf Hitler, from his childhood in Vienna, through the rise of the Third Reich, to his final act of suicide in the waning days of WWII. The film also provides considerable, and often shocking, detail of the atrocities enacted by the Nazi regime under Hitler's command.
Documentary on Bayard Rustin, best-remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington.