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Mysteries involving notable historical events, people and locations are scientifically examined.

Spanning 1853-56, the Crimean War unfolds as Russia clashes with a European coalition. Amid the bloody conflict rooted in long-standing tensions, Florence Nightingale emerges as a pioneering force, bringing hope to the battlefield.

A journey deep into the killing fields of Kosovo, at the height of the carnage in September 1998 - months before NATO bombs fell.

A short documentary about the making of "Withnail and I" - a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Loosely based on Robinson's life in London in the late 1960s, the plot follows two unemployed actors, Withnail and "I" (portrayed by Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, respectively) who share a flat in Camden Town in 1969.

The trials and horrific visions that made the most famous mystic of all time.

A journey through the career of the British writer/director best known for his film Withnail and I. Robinson reveals how he writes, reads from his screenplays and revisits the town of his birth where his first novel The Peculiar Memories of Thomas Penman is set. Interviews include Andy Garcia, Richard E Grant, Ken Russell and David Puttnam.

Hillary Clinton runs for Senate, touring New York state and squaring off against Rick Lazio.

Magazine series looking at the world of cinema.

A documentary series looking at the history of European and old American architecture still surviving in the United States.

Actor Ralph Brown, who played Danny in Withnail and I (1987), talks to fans to find out why the film is so important to them.

Chronicles of gay men and the theatre in the 20th century. From Oscar Wilde and Noel Coward through Terrence Rattigan and Tennesee Williams and on to Edward Albee, Joe Orton, Tony Kushner, and Larry Kramer.

San Francisco is one of the great landmarks of the world, known not only for its beauty and stunning location, but also as the world's popular place to commit suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge.

A three part documentary series which tells the story of the rise of Scottish nationalism and the troubled relationship with the UK parliament at Westminster.

LBJ's hatred of Bobby Kennedy, J. Edgar Hoover's determination to destroy Martin Luther King and the US Government's deceit behind the beginning of the Vietnam War are the subjects for three in-depth, dramatized documentaries; 'Obsession', 'Playing with the truth', and 'Uncivil Liberties'. (Series nominated for EMMY Award & EMMY Nominee)

Three hundred and forty-three New York firemen died in the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in 2001. This documentary follows firemen from two very different fire stations as they cope with the aftermath.

Looks at the story of Hideo Ebisawa, a devoted executive in a small electronics firm who committed suicide when his company was unable to pay the bills. It also looks at the recent rise in Japan's suicide rate and examines the devastating consequences it has had on society.

A close look at the history of show dancing, way back in the annuals of cinema, even before the nudist camp movies of the '60s.

An American and a Russian archaeologists work over a period of ten years to dig out and positively identify the remains of warrior women of probable Scythian origin, and further determine that their bone DNA analysis are an exact match of contemporary Mongolian tribe women.

In any society a mother's love for her child is thought to be sacred. Late in 2003 in an American court that most universal of instincts was being called into question. A jury had to decide if Terri Milbrandt had violated the trust of her daughter and perpetrated a sadistic fraud, deceived a caring community.

Scientist investigate the Turin Shroud, a linen cloth that bears the image of a man who some believe to be the Jesus of Nazareth. Some also believe that the cloth is actually the burial shroud he was wrapped in after the crucifixion.

Archaeologist Mike Pitts investigates the cause of death of a person, whose 3,000-year-old remains were found in a shallow grave at Stonehenge.

World War 2 offered few spoils for the victors. But the Nazi nuclear and aeronautical scientists were a well recognized prize that could have geopolitical implications in the post war world. The desperate efforts of Russians and Allies to capture the scientists, their equipment and creations are described.

In 1981, Three Mafia captains were murdered by Massino in a power play for control of the Bananno family. Over the next 20 years the FBI would use undercover testimony and accounting forensics to eventually topple Massino's Mafia career.

In 1937, dirigible LZ 129 Hindenburg, pride of the Third Reich, caught fire over Lakehurst, NJ and crashed. NASA scientist Addison Bain reexamines what may have been the cause of one of the most famous disasters of the 20th century.

The story of Australia's founding mothers and their bawdy journey to a new land as convicts on a floating brothel. Female convicts set up a brothel for sailors on a ship sailing from London to Australia in 1789.

Could fossilized remains discovered in Kenya in 2000 belong to the oldest direct human ancestor?

Could a violent volcanic eruption of Krakatoa be responsible for the climatic cataclysm that hit Earth in 535 A.D. causing two years of darkness, famine, drought and disease, and did this lead to emergence of new nations and religions?

Barrett Tillman, an author and historian who appears in the film "Dogfight Over Guadalcanal," discusses the art of the dogfight and the Guadalcanal campaign.

While working to aid Britain's military efforts Wallis toyed with a problem the British military had largely considered unsolvable -- how to destroy the Nazis' most important hydroelectric dams.

As early as 1939, the Japanese had drawn up plans to build the railway, which was to provide a supply line capable of transporting 3,000 tons of supplies per day to support their front-line troops in Burma.

Anasazi were a Native American tribe that lived in Colorado, Utah, New Mexico, and Arizona. Scientists investigate if the newly discovered Anasazi remains in Chaco Canyon, NM imply that cannibalism may have been a part of their culture.

The battlefield and weapons of the famous Battle of Isandlwana are examined to determined what really happened on 22 January 1879 when the Anglo-Zulu War began with the forces of Zulu Kingdom beating the unstoppable British Empire.

Scientists investigate what led to the demise of the British colony of Jamestown, VA around 1610. Were the starvation and outbreaks they faced caused by a string of unfortunate events or did Spain have something to do with it as well?

Scientists investigate the Spanish Flu, an unusually severe and deadly strain of avian influenza that caused the 1918 flu pandemic which killed almost 100 million people around the world.

Secrets of the Dead examines the 64 AD fire of Rome in an effort to determine if it was caused by Nero as reported by Tacitus, Christians as Nero contended or by accident. The program reviews recently uncovered forensic evidence, the historic record and motivations of the suspects.