Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those who in the 1930s determined the pulse of the cultural and political life of that time.

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his ...

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w...

A stark documentary about young male prostitutes in Prague, aged 15 to 18, who work the streets, tra...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and O...

A showcase of German chancellor and Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler at the 1934 Nuremberg Rally.

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to ...

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of ...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Explores Leni Riefenstahl's artistic legacy and her complex ties to the Nazi regime, juxtaposing her...

There's not a person in the world who wouldn't recognize Mickey Mouse. But until now, not many knew ...

In the 1930’s, the workers of the underground, headed by brigades of writers, are in charge to write...

A keen chronicle of the unlikely rise to power of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945) and a dissection of the T...
The life and career of legendary Hollywood glamour portrait photographer George Hurrell is profiled ...