Divers and snorkelers can tour six shipwrecks on the Maritime Heritage Trail in Biscayne National Park. Before her ruin upon the reefs in 1966, the yacht Mandalay was an impressive two-masted sailing ship. Originally built in 1928, she was christened Hardi Biaou…
Divers and snorkelers can tour six shipwrecks on the Maritime Heritage Trail in Biscayne National Park. The British steamer Lugano ran aground in a storm in 1913. Lugano was passing through the waters of Biscayne National Park…
Divers and snorkelers can tour six shipwrecks on the Maritime Heritage Trail in Biscayne National Park. One is an unnamed 19th Century wooden sailing vessel, commonly called the “Schooner Wreck.”…
Location: Pennsylvania Length: 4 min
A multi-million year old human fossil may be a truly one-of-a-kind look into the history of our species, but even the most well preserved specimen is useless in a vacuum…
The Ebey Slough Bridge, a swing-span bridge opening sideways for boat traffic, was christened in 1927, just before Babe Ruth's New York Yankees won the World Series…
Location: Tennessee, USA. Length: 14 min
Egg Fight is a short documentary that explores a centuries-old Southern Appalachian tradition. In a family feud older than the Hatfields and the McCoys, two Appalachian families keep alive their fighting tradition: egg fighting, that is…
In the fifth century B.C., Greek historian Herodotus described Egypt as "A land won by the Egyptians and given them by the Nile." The wealth of ancient Egyptian civilization truly derived from the blessed river that moves through the country with the dignity of a Caliph...
Location: Guatemala Length: 3 min
A team of archaeologists led by Stephen Houston has made a new discovery at the Maya archaeological site in El Zotz, Guatemala, uncovering a pyramid believed to celebrate the Maya sun god. The structure's outer walls depict the god in an unprecedented set of images done in painted stucco…
Location: UK Length: 8 min
This film is a video mirror between the Past and the Future displayed on the tactile surface of Neolithic sarsen stone…
Location: Iraq Length: 28 min.
This film in very shocking fashion details the horrendous destruction of the oldest treasures of human civilization held in the museums and archives of Iraq in the wake of the 2003 U.S. invasion…