John Brown's Holy War

Documentary about reggae in Jamaica and its history. Filmed in 1979.

In 2013, three women emerged from a flat in Brixton. They had been held there for decades by Aravindan Balakrishnan, a revolutionary Maoist who...

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an...

We came to the end of the road. We told you the story of the establishment of a democracy throughout 9 episodes... We witnessed the collapse of a...

In the eighteenth century, the family of BBC World News anchor and correspondent, Laura Trevelyan, were absentee slave owners on the island of...

Peter Batty presents a gripping account of the bloodshed and horror of the American Civil War. From the origins of the unrest between North and...

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

In the Bernese Alps, the Agassizhorn peak memorialises Louis Agassiz – a controversial 19th-century scientist, who not only named the mountain...

A compilation of various accidents, disasters, executions, and other acts of mayhem and human feats caught on film.

Every year, an estimated 800,000 persons are trafficked across international borders and forced into sexual or labour servitude. Estimates are that...

A depiction in the hanging of Edward Heinson, an assumed criminal assault convict in Jacksonville, Florida.

A fascinating account of the presidency of Andrew Jackson, who was both one of America's great presidents and a borderline tyrant. The seventh...