Explore the work of Harold ‘Doc’ Edgerton and his rapatronic camera—capturing the first microseconds of nuclear detonations. A factual look at technology, history, and the human impact.

Mozarts death. Myths and legends, art and drama.

The French mail carrier who spent 33 years building Le Palais idéal or the "Ideal Palace"

Richard Dadd, Art, Madness and Murder

His horrific experiences in the trenches inspired a series of 50 drypoint and aquatint etchings published as 'Der Krieg' in 1924.

George King "Primary Terrestrial Mental Channel No. 1"

Egon Schiele's (1890 – 1918) death bed sketch of his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant at the time. He himself was dying even as...

An interview with Ingmar Bergman where he discusses "Non-existence" and God's perfection in comparison to human imperfection.

Throughout his life William Blake claimed to have seen visions of people from the remote past, as well as deceased friends.

Francisco Goya's Black Paintings

Akira Kurosawa describes being shown the aftermath of the Kantō earthquake by his brother Heigo Kurosawa.

Clemente Susini's (1754–1814) vividly accurate but macabre wax models, both beautiful and disturbing.

Rare footage of Albert Camus talking about the theatre with an extract of The Possessed written and directed by Albert Camus

Jan 1889, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) is said to have witnessed a cab driver viciously whipping a horse.

Eadweard Muybridge (1830 – 1904) pioneering work on locomotion included many male and female nudes of himself and others

Titanic survivor Frank Prentice worked in the pursers office on the Titanic, he was 18.

Motopia was a proposed 'City of the Future' designed by architect Sir Geoffrey Jellicoe.

Footage of the devastation caused by World War 1 filmed (1919) by Lucien Le Saint with French balloon pilot Jacques Trolley de Prévaux.

Wilson Alwyn Bentley frustrated with being unable to view snowflakes under his microscope devised his own methods.

In 1991 JG Ballard returned to Shanghai to his childhood home and to Lunghua Interment camp.