1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee is preparing an armed uprising in the city.

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugosl...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist wi...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

In 1883 Milan Obrenovic, arrogant and despotic king of Serbia, felt threatened by the militia segmen...

An account of the peasant turned mythical military hero Vasily Chapayev, charting his campaign in th...

In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last gover...

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...
Movie adaptation of the history novel by August Senoa, about Matija Gubec, the leader of peasant rev...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...