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

What had initially started out as a Jewish revolt against the Roman occupation, quickly turned into ...

In the wake of the 1916 Easter Rising, a married schoolteacher in a small Irish village has an affai...

Story of Rani Lakshmibai, one of the leading figures of the Indian Rebellion of 1857 and her resista...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

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

Despite peaceful speeches, the army of the Soviet Russian is attacking Estonia, and the country's go...

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

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...

A few years after the Anshi Rebellion, Tang dynasty military commander Gao Shi suffers a defeat in a...

For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the pillars of the USSR, an object of both fear and admiration...

Brest, 1950. The war ended five years ago and nothing remains of the city. Massive bombings and inte...

Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's t...

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he mu...

Pre-WWII Czech democratic politician Milada Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist r...

“The Soviet Story” is a story of an Allied power, which helped the Nazis to fight Jews and which sla...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

Cambodia, once the ancient kingdom of Funan, April 17th, 1975. The entire country falls under the ty...

The story of what daily life was like in Poland under communism: private conversations, cruel interr...
Poland under Stalinist rule, 1953. A young nun Anna is brought to a prison where an influential prie...

A small band of multicultural convicts stages a daring escape from a WWII-era Siberian gulag, and em...