Lorraine lets out a throaty growl before she gracefully maneuvers past docked boats in an otherwise silent estuary, toward the open ocean. Mauricio Blanco, a good-looking, 40-something father of four and the C. Lorraine’s captain, has been up since 4 a.m. This is his second time on the water today.
In the wake of America’s deadliest mass shooting, Alex Hannaford meets the mother whose hashtag activism is breaking new ground in the entrenched battle for gun-law reform.
Betrayed, kidnapped and enslaved, Solomon Northup fought for his life in the dying days of slavery. Alex Hannaford uncovers the story that has inspired an acclaimed new film
Two years ago, Dal Neitzel set off in search of treasure. He drove 1,540 miles from his home in Washington State to the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, part of the Rockies in New Mexico, hoping to find a Romanesque chest. Dated to about AD 1150, the chest is said to contain in the region of $3-million worth of treasure.
Matthew McConaughey, star of ‘Dallas Buyers Club’, is tipped to win an Oscar for his portrayal of a macho Texan who became a hero to Aids sufferers. But is there more to the story?
The true story of a womanising con artist enlisted by the FBI is now an acclaimed film starring Christian Bale. Meet Mel Weinberg, the man who inspired American Hustle.
Julian Read played a crucial role in the hours following President Kennedy's assassination. Now, 50 years on, the political insider has finally agreed to open his files to the public.
Director David Gordon Green was making a film when he came across a woman picking through the ashes of her fire-ravaged home. The next thing Joyce Payne knew, she was in the movie.
During the Sixties, America and the USSR competed for supremacy of the solar system. But history has overlooked a third space race contestant - a group of seven students at a university in Lebanon.
Bass Reeves was a crack shot on a white horse, whose talent for rounding up evil-doers brought him fame in 1800s Oklahoma. And the lawman’s legend lives on, reports Alex Hannaford
CORPUS CHRISTI, Tex. -- The sun is low in the sky and an icy wind whips across the cotton field. The trailer has been empty a couple of months now. A tortured strip of aluminum bent into a 'V' sits like a spire on what's left of the roof, and the back end of the home is now a wooden skeleton after a tornado ripped it apart late last year.
