100 Years of the Atom

In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French Government were testing nuclear weapons. Barry...

The beautiful and dangerous lesbian slave trader Druscilla practices all the customs of Ancient Rome - everything in Excess. But even excess can have...

A portrait of a dilapidated Olympic-sized pool in Accra, Ghana.

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the second world war.

This short film was created by a group of Indigenous filmmakers at the NFB in 1972 and is essentially a song by Willie Dunn sung by Bob Charlie and...

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but what did it take to build the longest undersea...

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Japanese people.

The definitive account of Japan’s struggle as it faced a nuclear catastrophe while still reeling from the devastation of an earthquake and...

How, in 1945, after the end of World War II and the fall of the Nazi regime, the defeated were atrociously mistreated, especially those ethnic...

WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a...

This intimate documentary explores the life and career of the stage legend Stephen Sondheim through six of his best-known songs.

30 years after the Chernobyl catastrophe and 5 years after Fukushima it is time to see what has been happening in the “exclusion zones”...