Un séisme d'une amplitude exceptionnelle est provoqué par le coulissement extrême de la faille géologique de San Andreas en Californie. La panique s'empare des survivants qui fuient les villes détruites, alors que la presque totalité du territoire de l'État risque d'être engloutie dans l'océan Pacifique. Parti en mission de reconnaissance, Ray, pilote d'hélicoptère de secours de la ville de Los Angeles, vient sauver in extremis son ex-femme coincée dans un immeuble sur le point de s'écrouler. Déterminé à retrouver sa fille prise à San Francisco, le couple tente par tous les moyens de rallier la ville en ruine. Cependant, le temps presse, car des secousses sismiques violentes continuent de se produire, et la menace d'un tsunami plane.
Un astéroïde percute la Lune. L'orbite de cette dernière est déviée et se dirige vers la Terre. Une équipe d'astronautes, composée entre autres de l'administratrice de la NASA et d'un génie scientifique, se rend sur l'astre afin de sauver la planète. Mais sur place, ils devront faire face à une force inconnue qui pourrait bien changer notre vision de l'Univers.
A samurai answers a village's request for protection after he falls on hard times. The town needs protection from bandits, so the samurai gathers six others to help him teach the people how to defend themselves, and the villagers provide the soldiers with food.
Alors que la Terre est menacée de destruction par une comète, une famille se bat pour sa survie. John Garrity, sa femme Allison et son jeune fils Nathan entament un périlleux voyage vers leur seul espoir de refuge. Alors que des villes entières ont été décimées par des fragments de cette comète et que la panique et l’anarchie envahissent la planète, la famille Garrity fait face au pire et au meilleur de l’humanité. Leur incroyable périple culmine lorsqu’ils embarquent dans un avion en direction d’un possible bunker, quelques heures avant l’apocalypse.
Au printemps 1991, Rodney King, un automobiliste noir a été violemment passé à tabac par quatre policiers blancs de Los Angeles, après une course-poursuite à grande vitesse. Un résident du quartier a filmé la scène depuis le balcon de son appartement. Lorsque celle-ci a été rendue publique, les officiers de police ont été jugés et déclarés non coupable. Des émeutes ont ensuite explosé, pour devenir les troubles sociaux les plus graves de l'histoire des États-Unis.
In 1992, Mercer is desperately trying to rebuild his life and his relationship with his son amidst the turbulent Los Angeles uprising following the Rodney King verdict. Across town, another father and son put their own strained relationship to the test as they plot a dangerous heist to steal catalytic converters, which contain valuable platinum, from the factory where Mercer works. As tensions rise in Los Angeles and chaos erupts, both families reach their boiling points when their worlds collide.
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged industry, manage to unfurl the cataclysm of World War Two and come to occupy a large part of the European continent? Based on recent historical works of and interviews with Adam Tooze, Richard Overy, Frank Bajohr and Marie-Bénédicte Vincent, and drawing on rare archival material.
A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea. The ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.
An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the LA Riots, the most destructive riot in American history that left 53 people dead and caused over a billion dollars in damage.
Tiagong Akyat was one of the most famous outlaws in Philippine history. He terrorized Manila and the nearby provinces in the 1920s. Born Santiago Ronquillo in Imus, Cavite sometime in the late 19th century, Tiagong Akyat got his moniker because he simply entered homes and loot it of its wealth amidst the horrified residents (it should be noted that during the early 20th century, few homes had gates). Legend has it that Tiagong Akyat possessed an amulet that made him invisible. This amulet is called "Tagabulag" in Philippine folklore.Yet, despite Tiagong Akyat's notoriety, there was existing rumors that he was a "Robin Hood" character, helping the poor and looting the rich. In 1923, Manila Chief of Police John Fulton Green received an intelligence report that Tiagong Akyat was seen in Noveleta, Cavite. In cooperation with the Philippine constabulary, Green organized a formidable force to capture Tiagong Akyat, resulting to the kill of the latter.
One and a half years before the begin of the Second World War during the annexation of Austria in March of 1938, Hitler conceived the megalomaniac idea of creating the largest European art center in his home town of Linz. At the beginning of the war on the 1st of September 1939, not only did his armies advance but also his art thieves began to fan out in their great foray of art plundering; an expedition on a previously unheard of scale began. Not only did the task forces of diverse National Socialist organizations pillage the occupied countries; Nazi bigwigs like Goering also took whatever they felt was valuable. This documentary includes the long and eventful journey of an exceptional masterpiece of European art: the Ghent Altar, created by van Eyck.
The mysterious appearance of massive golden bracelets in int'l antiquarian circles uncovers an inside story of the looting of a 2000 yr-old Transylvanian golden-hoard. Police investigations...