England: Background of Literature

The final episode in our Mini-Docs series comes from musician and writer Jake Anderson, who explores...

The thoughts, words, and compelling presence of Gertrude Stein flows richly through this portrait of...

This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in...

Benedict Arnold is not the villain of American history most people were taught to believe. New facts...

A documentary on the post-war redevelopment in the City of London — focusing on the attempt to build...

England, 1960. The Crown sues the publisher Penguin Books in order to ban the publication of Lady Ch...

A famed criminologist reexamines the evidence in this powerful interview with murderer Bert Spencer,...

Lavish documentary in which historian Dr Suzannah Lipscomb unfolds the extraordinary story of the tu...

In the Cumbrian seaside village of Siddick, 9-year-old Laura-Anne narrates a year in her life in rhy...

The remarkable 83-year-old Helga Schubert lives in the remote landscape between Schwerin and Wismar....

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...

In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...

In this wildly entertaining vision of one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Bob Dylan is...

Renowned Photographer Chris Floyd captured the tumultuous life of the iconic band The Verve from the...

An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Don Letts examines the history of this notorious subculture in a fascinating documentary, which feat...