After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR political police. 16,000 bags filled with six million pieces of paper were found. Thanks to the meticulous work of technology, the destinies of men and women who had been spied on and recorded without their knowledge could be reconstructed.

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...
A portrait of the leading female Bolshevik (and later Worker’s Opposition) revolutionary leader Alex...

After his father is murdered by the Nazis in 1938, a young Viennese Jew named Ferry Tobler flees to ...

Errol Morris examines the incidents of abuse and torture of suspected terrorists at the hands of U.S...

A woman retraces a violence she suffered was born.
A documentary about the deconstruction of the Berlin Wall which makes no use of vocal commentary but...

15-year-old Elfie literally and metaphorically inhabits a no-man’s-land between the two Germanies sh...

The feature film version of the "Alien Interview", where all will be revealed.

Four siblings, whose father disappeared during Brazilian Military Dictatorship, report their childho...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a mai...

In Their Hands follows the psychotherapy of vulnerable people, sometimes destroyed by acts of tortur...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...