Provides more than 7,500 titles of streaming video from commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries from producers such as The History Channel and PBS. Historical coverage ranges from early American history to contemporary events.
Online collection of more than 1,750 critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide on human history from the earliest civilizations to the late twentieth century, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania.
Richard Miles looks at the winners, losers and survivors of the great Bronze Age collapse, a regional catastrophe that wiped out the achievements of civilisation in the Mediterranean about 3,000 years ago.
In the first episode of this epic series archaeologist and historian Richard Miles explores the origins of one of the most profound innovations in our human story: civilisation
The mysterious Etruscan civilization dominated the central region of ancient Italy, around what is now the heartland of Tuscany – before and during the Roman dynasties.
This richly illustrated short film celebrates diverse linguistic and cultural practices from around the world. In footage spanning five continents – from rainforest longhouses in Borneo to dramatic mountaintops in the Canary Islands—dynamic visions of art, music and dance are woven into a vivid global mosaic.
"Africans listen to the silence and use it as a dimension in which they can improvise," says John Collins, musician, writer and authority on the music of Ghana, where he lives. He narrates this documentary exploring the nature of African polyrhythms.
This documentary is a fascinating portrait of one of the most influential women of our time. Using never-before-seen archival footage, stills, interviews and dramatic re-creations, it weaves together a story of a scientist, adventurer and international celebrity whose ideas shaped how we think about ourselves.
