The combination of and old law and a new technology presented a lucrative opportunity to exploit the power patents

This journey started tens of thousands of years ago, when humans began to fan out across the planet, following unknown pathways, crossing unmeasured distances.

The Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong was once the densest place on earth, a virtually lawless labyrinth of crime, grime, commerce and hope.

An exploration of the life of Audrey Mestre, a world-class freediver, and the events leading up to the dive that ultimately took her life.

George Lucas recalls that Star Wars was influenced by pirate and swashbuckling films of the ’40s.

The story of Bobby Henline an Iraq War veteran who has made his injuries a part of his comedy.

A son makes a tribute documentary about his father, a once famous jazz guitarist from the Fiji Islands who gave up his career to move to America for the betterment […]

In the 1970s, South Africa was the world’s most prolific exporter of gold. Over the years, industrial decline has seen widespread closures of the mines across the country. However, Johannesburg […]

Over the past year, thousands across CAR have been killed and nearly a million have been displaced.

Paris has the Louvre, New York the Metropolitan Museum. But Husavik boasts the world’s only museum devoted exclusively to painstakingly preserved male genitalia.

Austria is popular with wealthy Russians. The small town of Kitzbühel is one of the places profiting from its rich guests. Now there are fears that sanctions will scare away […]

For many Peruvians, bootleg DVDs remain a primary source for accessing current movie releases.

When reporter Michael Altenhenne arrived in Simferopol in early March, Crimea was an autonomous republic in Ukraine. But this changed.