When luxury invited itself to the paradise of socialism... For three decades, East Germany rewarded its exemplary citizens by putting them on a boat.

On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our histo...

In August of 1914, amidst the public ecstasy surrounding the impending war, Hans Gastl, the young so...


Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused...

During the first days after the 1973 Chilean coup d’état, the political leadership of the Popular Un...

History is Marching is a feature length documentary analysing the rise in tensions between major pow...

Unfolding in a series of eight vignettes, Sound Spring explores the history ofYellow Springs, Ohio o...

In February 1986 they received the call of a fatherland that no longer exists: four young GDR citize...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

This documentary delves into the mysteries surrounding the Neanderthals and what their fossil record...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...