Kunya-Urgench is situated in northwestern Turkmenistan, on the south side of the Amu Daria River. Urgench was the capital of the Khorezm region, part of the Achaemenid Empire. The old town contains a series of monuments mainly from the 11th to 16th centuries, including a mosque, the gates of a caravanserai, fortresses, mausoleums and a minaret. The monuments testify to outstanding achievements in architecture and craftsmanship whose influence reached...

Located well above the Arctic Circle, the site includes the mountainous Wrangel Island (2,937 square miles), Herald Island (4 square miles) and surrounding waters. Wrangel was not glaciated during the Quaternary Ice Age, resulting in exceptionally high levels of biodiversity for this region. The island boasts the world’s largest population of Pacific walrus and the highest density of ancestral polar bear dens. It is a major feeding ground for the...

Alex is digging for buried treasure, when Timeblazers Jen and Sam tell him that his pirate's map is a fake. To help him better understand fact from fiction, they head back to ancient Greece and Plato, who made up the story of the mythical island Atlantis. Next Alex learns that the story of King Arthur and the Round Table is just a good story, written by Geoffrey of Monmouth; also that the Sword Excalibur and Merlin come from Celtic myths and legends....

The Cultural Revolution, which started in 1966, had less to do with culture than with a violent attempt to control the minds of the Chinese people. Yet it was a play, which slyly criticized Chairman Mao, that raised the curtain on this horrendous period in China's history, acting as a catalyst for the brutal reforms. Beginning with an excerpt from The Dismissal of Hai Rui, this program presents the details of the movement that led to the deaths of...

Nine-year-old Georgina Williams lives in Akropong, a picturesque town in Ghana's southern highland area. It's festival time, and as the program opens, the viewers see Georgina and her Uncle Kwame visiting the local kente weaver to buy her first ceremonial dress. Georgina then attends a festival party at her friend Anita Osuwu's house, where they play traditional Ghanian games such as "Bamba Bambariya" and "Ampe." Viewers visit the Okuapemman School,...

A dramatic and intimate look inside the Russian assault on Kharkiv. An updated account through a year of war, told by civilians surviving underground and first responders risking their lives in Ukraine’s second largest city.

Mikhail Morozov is a Russian patriot, good Christian and successful businessman. He owns Durakovo – the “Village of Fools” – 100 km southwest of Moscow. People come here from all over Russia to learn how to live and become true Russians. When they join the Village of Fools, the new residents abandon all their former rights and agree to obey Mikhail Morozov’s strict rules. “What we have here is a society that respects the vertical of power,...

At the end of the war, Georges Albertini, former secretary general of one of the main collaborationist parties, founded with the financial support of a few high-ranking friends, a review devoted to the study of communism. It became the cover for an intense anti-Communist propaganda activity. The “Centrale”, a mixture of employers' offices and intelligence agencies, will have a relentless struggle against the PCF (French Communism Party), and gain...

A documentary essay on memory, loss, and expectation combines into a poetic collage of a real and imagined Armenia. A young woman's journey to her homeland is interwoven with photographs and the reflections of actress Arsinée Khanjian, resulting in an elegiac and sensory investigation into the concepts of home, identity and place.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, the United States and the European Union imposed economic sanctions on Russia. Meant to punish the nation and undermine its economy, the sanctions froze the foreign assets of many Russian industries and oligarchs. Some argue that these assets should be given to Ukraine, which is suffering from the Russian onslaught and could use the funds to purchase weapons and compensate for the damage it has endured....