Documentary revealing just how dangerous too much fat is to our most vital internal organs. The programme follows a specialist pathology team as they conduct a post-mortem on the body…

This landmark film uses new evidence to investigate the truth behind Mona Lisa’s identity and where she lived. It decodes centuries-old documents and uses state-of-the-art technology that could unlock the…

A popular sensation in medieval Europe, bestiaries were catalogs of beasts featuring exotic animal illustrations, zoological wisdom, and ancient legends. The documentary unfolds like a filmic picture book where both…

Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison all died at the age of 27 between 1969 and 1971. At the time, the coincidence gave rise to some comment,…

The US writer Stephen King (Portland, Maine, 1947) has been one of the world’s best-selling authors for decades. How can the overwhelming success of his numerous works be explained? Perhaps…

Images of street life in New York’s Spanish Harlem during the 1940s.

The world’s leading Egyptologists are on a quest to uncover the secrets of Howard Carter’s history-making discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb on the 100th anniversary of its discovery. Now, as the…

At technical colleges across France, several classes of teenage boys train to become foundry workers and mechanics in the hope of securing a better future. Revealing their hopes and dreams,…

In a country at the world’s end, the highest authority of the Catholic Church lands. The Pope comes to bring the word of God, but Chile awaits him with the…

Computer-generated imagery and other visualization techniques reveal how it would look if all the water was removed from RMS Titanic’s final resting place.

An ode to rural France and the simple joys of life, Dominique Benicheti’s glorious masterpiece Cousin Jules captures the daily routine and rituals of Jules, a blacksmith, living with his…

This movie is a fun look back into a bygone era of motorcycling. More than the ubiquitous “history of Harley” type documentaries, this move looks at the entire culture of…