She has travelled farther than all her monarchical predecessors put together. She has lived longer than any of them, too. And she has known more historic figures than anyone alive. In Our Queen, Robert Hardman has painted a portrait of one of the most popular public figures on the planet, just in time for her Diamond Jubilee.

For decades after World War II, the Police Gazette ("America's original tabloid") insisted Adolf Hitler was alive and kicking somewhere in South America.

Charles Dickens was born in 1812. By the time of his death in 1870, he had met princes and presidents and amassed a fortune. He was truly 'the Inimitable' and was buried - against his wishes - in Westminster Abbey. But Dickens' energy and brilliance concealed a divided character.

Five hundred years after he set sail, the prevailing view of Christopher Columbus holds him responsible for everything that went wrong in the New World.

On January 24, 1943, over two hundred women were placed in four cattle trucks on a train in Compiegne, France.

Can there really be peace on earth? Visionary scientist Gregg Braden suggests that the hottest topics that divide us are actually related.

She's come a long way. In this revealing personal inquiry, former governor general Adrienne Clarkson explores the immigrant experience through the people who have helped transform Canada.

One of Canada's best-known biographers turns to the raw material of his own life in Writing History.  Michael Bliss has

Nearly six hundred years ago, an alert man in his late thirties took a very old manuscript off a library shelf. Only he knew what he had discovered.

The movie cannot be better than this. The most remarkable double agent of World War II, Eddie Chapman was witty, handsome, and charming.