The Divided Union: The Story of the American Civil War

During the last forty years, the photographer Sebastião Salgado has been travelling through the continents, in the footsteps of an...

Jeffery Robinson's talk on the history of U.S. anti-Black racism, with archival footage and interviews.

A moving recording of the late writer and renowned jazz singer Abbey Lincoln is captured in this new film from Brooklyn-born director Rodney...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and noted authors, this two-part documentary series...

An examination of how President Abraham Lincoln used contemporary telecommunications to his maximum advantage in the American Civil War.

The film documents modern slave trade through a number of African countries, under dictatorship rule. The filming was conducted both in public...

Just days after the Civil War ended, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated at Ford's Theatre. As a fractured nation mourned, a manhunt closed in...

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and...

The film tells the story of 25-year-old Urmila Chaudary from Nepal. At the age of six she was sold by her family and was forced to work as a slave...

Successful model Samira Hashi makes an emotional return to Somalia, one of the most dangerous places in the world and the place she was born. Civil...

When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors...

After 52 years of armed conflict the FARC guerrillas are about to hand over their arms in exchange for political participation and social inclusion...