Documentary

This program features both English and French language versions. Chaim Soutine, the name is familiar, the artist's work less so. The man, born in 1893 in a shtetl in today's Belarus, is a mysterious, shadowy figure. For this film, filmmakers Valerie...

This is the incredible story of explorer Ernest Shackleton's heroic attempt to lead the first expedition across the last unknown continent of Antarctica in 1914-16. With historical photos and rare film footage, this astonishing story explores the limits...

End Times California DVD

Think of Ancient Egypt and you think of the great Pyramids at Giza - but these incredible structures are not the only treasures left to US by a truly remarkable civilization. This program visits, explores and restores such wonders as the Temples at Al...

In the late 1940s and '50s Mark Rothko (1903-70) was one of the leading American artists who created wall-scale abstract paintings that filled the viewer's field of vision and became a form of environment. Rothko spoke of wanting the spectator to feel...

10 Most Evil Serial Killers DVD

We are told the Moon has been here since before the dawn of man and is either a part of the Earth itself or a vagabond captured by our world eons ago. But is this true? There are many theories for the existence of the Moon but all have been proven wrong...

It was a battle which would change the face of Europe forever... a day of savage fighting which destroyed the dreams of Napoleon and freed the continent from the threat of his vaulting ambition. The outcome of the great battle was determined by a handful...

A Royal Academy exhibitioner at the age of fifteen, J.M.W. Turner, by the end of his life, was the best known artist in England during the Romantic period and one of the forerunners of Impressionism. A life-long lover of landscape and seascape painting,...

Smokin' Joe Frazier is considered one of the greatest heavyweights of all time. This film brings to life his remarkable story, including intimate interviews with Joe shortly before his death in November 2011. Born in poverty in the rural South, he moved...

Inside Sportfishing: Big Boat Big Fish DVD

As the concept of society grew and developed, the first great cities of the ancient world came to prominence. This episode from the Secrets of Ancient Empires collection investigates the realities behind everyday life in the city including law and order,...