The strangest movie I have ever seen: “The Osterman Weekend” and the story behind it. Crossbow arrows, a nude John Hurt and a script possibly written on hallucinogens. What's not to like?
Interiors: Biblioteca Palafoxiana, ancient library in Ciudad de Puebla, Mexico. This beautiful library room represents one of the great intellectual repositories of Colonial Mexico.
Behind the Scenes: 1981, Britain’s Awful Year. One tragic year in the life of the UK is the subject of my newest deep dive historical video.
The day the sky turned red: The Melbourne Dust Storm of 1983. For two terrifying hours, a mammoth wall of dust turned one of Australia's largest cities into a vision of Hell.
Historic Photo: Native American ice-cutting crew in winter, 1880s. If you wanted ice cream in the Victorian era, you had people like this to thank for it.
My journey with “The Martian Chronicles”: a terrible but nostalgic bit of TV science fiction. This terrible 1980 show at least gets one thing right: humanity doesn't deserve another planet to screw up like we have this one.
“Bloody Sunday’s” Father Gapon: the agent who provocateured too much. The story of a priest mixed up in the Russian Revolution demonstrates just how confusing history can sometimes be.