Trains: Two Centuries of Innovation

Over a century ago, Sagar Mitchell and James Kenyon roamed Britain and Ireland filming the everyday lives of people at work and play. For around 70 ye...

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...

The story of Jerry Lee Lewis, arguably the greatest and certainly one of the wildest musicians of the 1950s. His arrogance, remarkable talent, and unc...

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present.

A group of skiers are trapped inside a runaway train hurtling down a mountainside.

Rare archive footage reveals what Singapore was like dating back to 1900, showing coolies sharing lunch, rickshaw pullers, a grand Peranakan funeral,...

While Susan B Anthony famously said the bicycle “has done more to emancipate women than anything else in the world”, The Freedom Machine interrogates...

As the clock counted down to the the 21st century, the world faced a potential technological disaster: a bug that could cause computers to misinterpre...

The Ashtabula train disaster and bridge collapse was the worst train disaster of the 19th century, claiming the lives of 97 people. The engineering an...