The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black youth who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement....

There never was a star quite like Shirley Temple. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led at the Box Office - ahead of Gable and Cooper.

This easy-to-follow bass guitar DVD tutor will take you step by step from first day exercises to playing along with a professional backing track. Learn how to tune your bass, pluck the strings using...

Alan Alda investigates how people create memories and how as they age, memories become slippery and elusive, sometimes vanishing forever. He visits two men who live entirely in the present or the...

Six years after the fall of Mexico, the conquistador Francisco Pizarro, exploring south of the equator, uncovers another civilization unknown to the European world: the empire of the Incas, which...

If only they could talk! In "Animal Einsteins," scientists show their latest experiments, which are beginning to reveal how animals think. Clever pigs do what they are told, while wily ravens pull...

For more than a year, the Simpson saga transfixed the nation and dominated the public imagination. The Simpson trial also revealed startling truths about American society. It exposed deep and...

In the second part of this investigation into the life of the world's greatest writer, Micheal Wood explains how this young man from Stratford became a star of the London stage, and uncovers a tale...