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At the Colonia Dignidad compound in Chile, Paul Schäfer ruled over his followers with an iron fist. Exhausting work, violence, and abuse dominated daily life.During the Pinochet d...

A. Eddy Goldfarb is an American toy inventor. The creator of over 800 toys, he is best known for inventing Yakity Yak Talking Teeth, Battling Tops, KerPlunk, Stompers, and Vac-U-Fo...

You have probably heard the words, “Remember, remember the 5th of November”. The words are association to the Gunpowder plot. The date is the one on which Guy Fawkes, a Catholi...

Nowadays, any good marketer knows that slogans sell products. But that has been true for quite some time.And there is no better example of how a slogan could sell anything than Naz...

The FIM-92 Stinger is an American man-portable air-defense system that operates as an infrared homing surface-to-air missile. It can be adapted to fire from a wide variety of groun...

Shrouded in myth and legend, the forests of Germany and their wild inhabitants are known all around the world.Shots filmed from hot-air balloons show the magnificence of the landsc...

Britain’s Wicca Man tells the extraordinary story of Britain's fastest growing religious group - Wicca - and of its creator, an eccentric Englishman called Gerald Gardner.Histori...

From the snow-covered Dolomites to the turquoise blue of the Mediterranean, the spectacular landscape of Italy is already a favorite for many.Winter in northern Italy: ice and snow...

The Illuminati: They act in the shadows, they are extremely secretive and they practice ancient rituals. Secret societies play a far larger role in our everyday lives than we are a...

Shifting wind patterns are making extreme weather events more likely. This is because the wind, which distributes areas of high and low pressure along the latitude lines of the Ear...

Only 0.3 percent of the Earth's total water supply is suitable for human consumption. Ominously, this precious resource is beginning to shrink.Natural water reservoirs are drying u...

Experts believe that plastic pollution has become one of the most pressing environmental issues. Rapidly increasing production of disposable plastic products overwhelms the world�...

In summer 2007, at a site in Ireland, archaeologists were uncovering layers of graves. They were astonished to find two skeletons with large stones lodged in their jaws.This was ex...

In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to Angola, DRC and Congo in central Africa to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire.She hears about the critical role played by women in...

For over a decade, a mysterious Colombian drug baron takes the United States by storm with an unprecedented tidalwave of gangland warfare, sweeping from coast to coast.This is the ...

Scientists have talked about it for quite some time. Global temperatures keep rising and rising, and we talk about the potential dangers.But what would exactly happen if global tem...

Earth's soils are degrading into deserts at an unprecedented rate, with catastrophic consequences. The good news is that humans can turn them into fertile land.This documentary exp...

This documentary takes you to Yakutia, the coldest inhabited region on Earth with the lowest recorded temperature -71°C (-95°F) and the average winter temperature -50°C (-58°F)...