In the 25 years since this local documentary aired, ‘Style Wars‘ gathered a huge cult following amongst graffiti/tagging obsessives and hip-hop aficionados. Watch…

The best-selling author and historian Niall Ferguson shows how finance is the foundation of human progress in his latest book, “The Ascent of Money,” on which a new PBS program of the same title is based (airing in January). Watch interview.

‘Inheritance’ is the story of Monika Hertwig, the daughter of concentration camp commandant Amon Goeth. The film chronicles her meeting with survivor Helen Jonas, one of the few living eyewitnesses to Goeth’s unspeakable brutality. Watch online until January 4th.

Denis Belliveau and Francis O’Donnell took a wild idea – retrace Marco Polo’s entire 25,000-mile, land-and-sea route from Venice to China and back – and spent two incredible years of their lives filming the trip. Watch full documentary.

This four-hour documentary explores the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created Christianity. The film covers how Judaism and Roman cultures shaped Jesus’ life, to the growth of the Christian religion from 100 to 300 A.D. Watch.

The first Nobel Prizes are awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of chemistry, physics, medicine, literature and peace, on the 5th anniversary of Alfred Nobel’s death, December 10, 1901. Nobel, who was a Swedish chemist and the inventor of dynamite, created a fund for the prizes in his will.

Experts also appraise an original print of the map that revolutionized our understanding of the American landscape — the Lewis and Clark report of 1814, in Hour 3 of Antiques Roadshow, in Portland, Oregon. Watch all appraisals from this episode. (Originally aired: 05/2/2005).

On December 8, 1980, singer John Lennon was killed outside his New York apartment building, on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, opposite Central Park.

As part of the Heritage television series of in-depth interviews with public figures, Eleanor Roosevelt discusses her early home life, education, and her life with Franklin D. Roosevelt, the effect his illness had on the presidency, raising a family in the public eye, and more. Watch now.

New York cabinetmaker Duncan Phyfe became one of the leading furniture makers in 19th century by organizing the first large scale furniture business. Matthew A. Thurlow from The Metropolitan Museum discusses New York’s manufacturing heritage and history. Watch lecture.