Duels of History

Could the Spanish have conquered Mexico without the help of Malinche, a Native American slave who became Hernan Cortés' translator? 

In her battle against Ronald Reagan, activist Angela Davis became the icon of an entire generation.

Sculptors Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel had a passionate affair, but things turned sour.

Did French Queen Marie-Antoinette really betray her adopted country? And was Robespierre a dictator or a democrat?

Jiang Qing represented the old ways of the Chinese Communist Party, so she had to go.

How did a simple tennis match between a woman, tennis star Billie Jean King, and a man, ex-player Bobby Riggs, become a television phenomenon and change the face of women's sport?

Why is Lucrezia Borgia, daughter of Pope Alexander VI, still viewed as a Machiavellian manipulator? 

How did Marie Curie's love affair with the married physicist Paul Langevin become a national story that divided France?

Friedrich Ebert and Rosa Luxemburg comrades on the left - and yet became bitter enemies.

An odyssey through Iran in search of a lost father for one Tehrani teenager and her friends.

How can we have more fulfilling sex? Ronja von Rönne meets couples and singles who have reinvented their sexuality.

Was everything better in the past? Twist meets nostalgia enthusiasts to find out.

With growing incursions since the start of the war in Ukraine, the EU hopes to implement an anti-drone shield.

With one of his paintings, Gerhard Richter made an intervention into a long-running an passionate debate: Which way round should you put the toilet roll?

It seems that scientist have proven that the enigmatic gaze of the Mona Lisa does not follow you as you move around the room. So why did we think that in the first place?

As the world heats up, cities around the world are responding to the challenges of climate change with fresh ideas.

The city of stars on the steppe is the largest space launch facility in the world and crucial to the Soviet space programme.

Loulou is the hilarious story of the unbreakable friendship between Loulou and her three best friends Alice, Marie and Max. Season 1 follows the four friends as they deal with her unplanned pregnancy. And when her child appears in season 2 it's just the beginning of Loulou’s travails.

A hunter, an activist and a tattoo artist:Three Greenlandic women talk about their pride in belonging to the Inuit people.