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This series showcases eight pioneering female composers of the baroque era.

This documentary explores a little-known chapter of World War II: French volunteers who fought for the Third Reich.

The chancellor and the president: Can the two men help build a Europe fit for the future?

Meet the heroes and gods of Greek mythology with Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey full of passion, power-play, rivalry and divine wrath.

Andrzej Wajda gives us a rich and deep self-assessment of his body of work, towards the end of his life

What do we mean by energy sufficiency? And wow does the concept provide an answer to the energy crisis?

Destruction, terror, war: It seems that there has never been more violence than in the world today. But what can we learn from history? Was there really less violence in the past?

In the late Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the figure of the fool was omnipresent in art.

Marek Halter continues his search for the Righteous ones in this second part of his extraordinary documentary.

Mark Halter sets out to find the people from across Europe and beyond who saved 500,000 Jews from the Holocaust.

 In the democratic-leaning city of Philadelphia, the birthplace of the nation, local people are firmly against Donald Trump’s whitewashing of American history.

 A look behind the scenes of an unscrupulous industry that seems to have no regard for children and their families.

In the West Bank the brutal reality of the Israeli occupation is clear: Dozens of Palestinian children are gunned down each year by the Israeli army and police.

Italian female composers broadened their horizons as the courts of Europe beckoned with opportunity…

Behind convent walls, female baroque composers wrote their own chapter of music history.

Whilst male composers such as Monteverdi and Vivaldi were celebrated, women composers struggled for recognition or even the right to play an instrument at all.

Could microbes hold the key to understanding the increase in a number of chronic conditions and allergies?

War in Libya threatened the country's ancient sites but local armed volunteers guard their ancient heritage.

As Israeli bombs Lebanon, Wissam Charaf gives a moving account of a childhood shattered by successive conflicts.

Fueling Cambodia's construction boom are brick factories where workers are paid a pittance, trapped in debt bondage.