The incredible life of Jorge Semprún (1923-2011): son of a republican intellectual; exiled in the early days of the Spanish Civil War; survivor of the Buchenwald concentration camp during World War II; clandestine communist in Spain during Franco's dictatorship; controversial socialist politician; acclaimed writer, screenwriter and filmmaker.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
George Clinton's somewhat absurdist take on Parliament-Funkadelic history. Features never-before-gra...
Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...
In Taiwan, director Lee Hsing's films have become a reflection of society and a collective memory of...
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
A biopic of Rainis (born as Jānis Pliekšāns), a Latvian poet, playwright, translator, and politician...
In 1975, Finnish President Urho Kekkonen became an internationally recognized expert on bridging the...
Balkan Baroque is a real and imaginary biography of the Yugoslavian performance artist Marina Abramo...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...
A group of young skateboarders find direction in their lives when they move to New York and start a ...
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
Inventor Robert Fulton receives support from a tavern owner and a shipyard worker to help realize hi...
The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evas...