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When the Yugoslav Wars engulfed central Europe, an international tribunal was established to prosecute war criminals...
In the early 1970s, Afghanistan was at a crossroad between modernity and tradition, Islam and communism. When the...
Journalist Afua Hirsch explores how African countries are throwing off their colonial pasts and becoming 21st-century...
Armed with a copy of Joseph Conrad's classic novel Heart of Darkness, a British-Nigerian university student goes in...
Born in 1873, Alice Guy was the world's first female director, making nearly a thousand films on both sides of the...
Three siblings whose mother was from the Musqueam First Nation travel to their father's village in China in order to...
Egypt captivates us like few other ancient civilizations - but what was it like to actually live there as an ordinary...
The German people voted for an unlikely political candidate when the 1929 economic crisis hit. Hitler claimed he wanted...
On November 11, 1918, the world emerged from the most horrific conflict it had ever known. As traumatized countries...
The story of this devastating global conflict is told through the often-tragic destinies of those who fought it, those...
In the summer of 1945, the Allies celebrated a return to peace, but soon an Iron Curtain was erected, separating the...
Colourized archival footage tells the story of the First World War, taking us to the battlefields, the strategy rooms...
Chronicles the love, life and legacy of Art Johnston and Pepe Pena, Chicago LGBTQ+ pioneers and owners of the iconic...
Contemporary artists and thinkers explore eight dramatic turning points in British history, from the post-Roman era to...
Over two million men from across Asia fought in the First World War. Discover what their sacrifices meant to the war...
Historian Amanda Vickery explores how the great British obsession with our homes began 300 years ago.
Berlin 1945 looks back at the city's most fateful year through the eyes of those who experienced it: the German...
Indigenous, Chinese, Japanese, Punjabi, Black, and European stories are woven together to present an astute look at the...
This documentary traces the life and work of C.D. Hoy, one of Canada's most famous early photographers.
Explore the features that define Canada: the most expansive coastline in the world and the world’s longest undefended...
Highlights the unique history of the Great Depression in Vancouver and the influx of transient men that arrived with it.
Rare archival footage shows China during times of war and peace, from the final decade of the Qing Dynasty to the years...
In May 1914, the Komagata Maru was refused permission to land in Vancouver, forcing the prospective immigrants from...
Sixty years of Cuba's history and its place in the world is explored, with views from every side - the Cubans, the...
Profiles some of the musicians, deejays, gigs and clubs that have made British Columbians swing and shout since the...
Nelson filmmaker Amy Bohigian explores the region's history through the stories of people who have lived in the...
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn step back in time to experience the trials and...
Professor Joann Fletcher explores what it was like to be a woman of power in ancient Egypt - from the realities of...
Classicist Bettany Hughes journeys to temples, palaces and cities as she discovers the fascinating past and traditions...
Internationally esteemed art dealer Philip Mould and journalist Fiona Bruce investigate thrilling cases of art world...
Filmmaker Rachel Perkins tells the story of Australia's First Wars - the brutal conflicts that emerged from Indigenous...
Using the street photography of Foncie Pulice, this documentary traces a timeline through the heart of Vancouver...
From BC joining Canada in the 1870s to Vancouver hosting Expo in 1986, we see over a century of British Columbian life...
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman are riding the rails on an old-fashioned locomotive to learn how the golden...
Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx...
Inspired by Odysseus, Bettany Hughes makes an epic journey by sea, travelling from eastern Greece to Ithaca while...
In the early 1900s, photographer Senjiro Hayashi took images of people of every race, class and gender in Cumberland, BC...
On the night of February 27, 1933, the German Parliament building burned down, and democracy went along with it. But who...
Waldemar Januszczak looks at the life and work of an artist who became famous for bringing the Tudor age to life.
This poetic documentary tells the parallel stories of two First Nations men who returned home, and the ancient song that...
Acclaimed documentarian Alanis Obomsawin (Abenaki) blends a powerful speech by the Ojibwe former senator and Truth and...
Alanis Obomsawin shares a powerful 2016 speech by the Ojibwe senator and former Truth and Reconciliation Commission...
Physicist Brian Cox explores the story of humanity, told through the greatest questions we've ever asked. Why are we...
Author Damian Barr goes in search of the legacy and lasting influence of one of Scotland's greatest historical figures...
In May 1961, two young climbers started up the "unclimbable" Stawamus Chief outside Squamish, BC.
In 1939, Velma Demerson was sentenced to one year in prison for her relationship with a Chinese man. Decades later, she...
Witness pivotal moments from India's 20th-century colonial history, from processions of elephants carrying India's...
Filmmaker Cheryl Foggo re-examines the mythology surrounding John Ware, the Black cowboy who settled in Alberta before...
Mary Beard investigates the real Julius Caesar, separating fact from fiction and revealing how his influence is still...
Metis/Dene filmmaker Marie Clements navigates the cultural complexities stemming from American photographer Edward...
Rembrandt is considered one of the most famous artists in European history, but his work was often misunderstood in his...
The success of Choral Evensong came down to the preferences of a young Queen Elizabeth I, driven by her deep love of...
Margaret Mountford travels to Egypt's Valley of the Kings to uncover the story of Harry Burton, the man whose images of...
Mohawk filmmaker Courtney Montour shares the powerful story of activist Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for more than...
Historian and author Helen Castor explores how people in the Middle Ages handled life's most fundamental moments of...
British historian Mary Beard puts aside the stories of Emperors and armies, blood, guts and gore, to take a fresh look...
Acclaimed British horticulturist Monty Don heads across the Channel to find out what makes French gardens, and the...
World-famous gardener Monty Don takes us on a trip around Italy's most beautiful gardens.
Monty Don sets out to discover the true essence of Japanese gardens and what we have learned from them. He visits Japan...
Monty Don travels across the Islamic world and beyond in search of Paradise Gardens, whose beauty and symbolic meaning...
Travelling from Venice to Croatia and Greece, gardening expert Monty Don explores some of the most beautiful gardens...
The fatal 1985 bombing of Greenpeace's flagship Rainbow Warrior is a gripping story of state terrorism, environmental...
The injustice of the Japanese internment is explored through the story of Kyuichi Nomoto, one of the first Japanese...
As Peggy Guggenheim moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected modern art as well as the...
Artist Carey Newman (Kwakwak'awakw/Coast Salish) creates a piece called the "Witness Blanket" that commemorates the...
Comedian Frank Skinner and author Denise Mina follow in the footsteps of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, two of the...
Comedian Zoe Coombs Marr wipes away the straightwashing and peers into the untold and frankly fascinating queer history...
Leading experts look at the past 30 years and the events that have shaped our world, including the collapse of the...
Historian Mary Beard answers questions that have fascinated people for centuries. How could a mediocre city in central...
Historian Dan Jones explores the turbulent history behind some of Britain's most iconic castles.
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold join forces to take on one of their most ambitious...
In Medieval and Tudor England there was no question in peoples' minds – men ruled and women didn't. Historian Helen...
Lesser known stories from BC history, including the Candy Bar Strike of 1947 and the tale of Vancouver's first official...
Dr Sam Willis examines the pivotal moments in military history that brought about these changing weapons of war, from...
Journalist Afua Hirsch explores why people are uncomfortable with the true history and legacy of Britain's heroes.
The story of Charles Bedaux is parallelled against the backdrop of the Canadian Rockies where in 1934, he engineered an...
Rob Collins rediscovers the ancient innovations and scientific inventions of Australia's First People - the world's...
Singaporean curator and scholar Peter Lee explores the rise and fall of Southeast Asia's great empires, and how their...
Singaporean scholar and curator Peter Lee travels to Japan and South Korea to seek out epic legends and vibrant...
Historian Bettany Hughes sets off on an adventure up the Nile to take in the famous pyramids, great temples and new...
Historian Simon Schama explores the enduring and powerful legacy that the Romantics have left on the modern world.
Horticulturalist Monty Don digs into the fascinating history of British gardens over the past 400 years, showing how...
Rob Bell takes us on a voyage to the seas around Britain and Ireland to reveal the extraordinary stories and hidden...
For over 40 years, society columnist and photographer Malcolm Parry has been chronicling the goings-on in the city of...
Kate Humble travels through India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia, discovering how spices were once so coveted that a small...
From the settlement of the Nile by a handful of nomads to the building of the pyramids and the burial of King Tut...
Historian Amanda Vickery rescues female artists from the shadows of obscurity, giving them their rightful place in the...
Andrew Marr tells the stories behind 10 of the greatest paintings in the world - exploring works by Picasso, Van Gogh...
Four famous campaigns of the Second World War are analyzed through the prism of trains and railways, which were...
Historian Bettany Hughes explores some of the most remarkable treasures of human civilization.
Narrated by William Shatner, this unsettling documentary recounts the design, development, production and testing of...
Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold go back in time to run a monastery farm exactly as...
Ruth Goodman, Peter Ginn and Tom Pinfold explore the festive season as it would have been celebrated during the reign of...
Charts the origins of the small plastics company that unpredictably became a cultural phenomenon.
Curators of community archives across British Columbia are working to create a more inclusive history, bringing to light...
Alex Langlands, Peter Ginn and Ruth Goodman return to the Shropshire farm to discover how the Victorians created the...
Historian Ruth Goodman, professor Nick Barber and PhD student Tom Quick recreate an authentic 19th-century pharmacy...
Join Tony Robinson as he embarks upon spectacular walks through some of Britain's most historic landscapes in search of...
Historian Suzannah Lipscomb follows the trail of England's most fascinating dynasty, uncovering the legacy of the Tudor...
Historian Onyeka Nubia sheds new light on this monumental era, unearthing a society riddled with inequality and...
Arthur Williams, a pilot and former Royal Marine, discovers the people and places that changed the course of the Second...
Peter Ginn, Ruth Goodman and Alex Langlands spend a year running a farm in Hampshire County, UK as it would have been...
Ruth Goodman and Peter Ginn return to Manor Farm in Hampshire to recreate the conditions of Christmas 1944 - the sixth...
Explorer Wade Davis and Jeff Wheeler, grandson of Canadian surveyor and adventurer Oliver Wheeler, retrace his steps in...
Experts illuminate moments in Winston Churchill's life that informed his decisions during the war, revealing how he...
Comedian Frank Skinner and author Denise Mina retrace the passionate friendship of Romantic poets Wordsworth and...
This three-part series shares the stories of workers, industries and events spanning three centuries of BC history.
Rob Bell reveals the secrets of the historic ships that shaped the world. He visits each of these monumental vessels as...
Monty Halls explores the perilous Freedom Trails - where thousands of men and women risked their lives following these...
President Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, and America sinks deeper into the Vietnam War. In 1989, the Berlin Wall falls.
A young group of detectives, with no prior experience of international crime, catch some of the world's most highly trained military saboteurs in the aftermath of the Rainbow Warrior bombing.
Brian Cox reveals how the complexity of nature and human life is simply the consequence of chance events constrained by the laws of physics that govern our universe.
Explorer Wade Davis and Jeff Wheeler, grandson of Canadian surveyor and adventurer Oliver Wheeler, retrace his steps in the first British expedition to Mount Everest in 1921.
Arthur discovers how East Anglians did everything in their power to prevent a Nazi invasion, from building coastal defences to joining the Home Guard.
Khrushchev opens up the USSR, but tensions with the West continue with the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.
The first-ever colour film record of China captures the sacred and profane in 1930s Beijing. Other films document the struggle for China and the victorious People's Liberation Army.
A 1985 Greenpeace mission to disrupt nuclear weapons testing is thwarted when two bombs sink their ship in Auckland harbour, killing a crew member.
Brian Cox discovers how the universe played a key role in our ascent from apeman to spaceman by driving the expansion of our brains.
Arthur takes a walk through Hampshire, a hotbed of secret operations during the war, from Spitfire factories and a clandestine bombing range to the school for Churchill's spies.
Stalin dies and a wave of hope in East Berlin is swiftly repressed by the Soviets. In Asia, the heated conflicts seem to be coming to an end. (4 of 6)
Archival films provide a rare look at China's past, from the last decade of the Qing dynasty in the 1900s through the great sweep of the Chinese Republic, to the birth of the Chinese Communist Party.
In 1837 the Colonial Office in London began opening up the entire territory of Australia for sale and the great squatting age began.
The war drags on in Korea, and the French are taking a beating in Indochina. Near the Yalu River, US forces face a new opponent: China.
The absence of public memorialization of frontier warfare in Tasmania is incongruous on an island so characterized by its colonial past.
Historical footage shows key moments in early 20th-century India, including Gandhi leading the Indian National Congress Party, as well as Muslim refugees en route to Pakistan during Partition.
Simon looks at how the Romantics, before the dawn of the modern psychological revolution, delved into their own minds and the human subconscious, often at great personal cost.
The Romantics and Us
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The Chambers of the Mind
Expires on Sep 18
Simon looks at how the Romantics, before the dawn of the modern psychological revolution, delved into their own minds...
India on Film
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India on Film
Expires on Sep 20
Historical footage shows key moments in early 20th-century India, including Gandhi leading the Indian National Congress...