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

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...

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

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

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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

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

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Q...

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

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

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

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism w...

A Red Army convoy transporting a large amount of cash is apparently ambushed by anarchists led by Ma...

The film begins in 1857, when India was ruled by the British East India Company. Mangal Pandey is a ...

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

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

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

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

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