The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago, published in Paris in 1973, which forever shook the very foundations of communist ideology.
Documentary on Belgian director of greek descent Jean Daskalidès.
On March 9, 1953, Joseph Stalin was buried in Moscow in front of a million people. His funeral is th...
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...
In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...
On a winter night in 2002, a couple in their early 20s is breaking up atop a bridge, when the woman ...
Thinley and Nyima are Tibetans in exile in India. Barely able to make a living, they are now expecti...
An analysis of The Kindly Ones, Jonathan Littell's controversial novel, published in 2006, which dis...
Artist Taylor Denise sets out to make her first painting, which also happens to be her largest work ...
An account of the short life of genius musician Jimi Hendrix (1942-70), probably the most talented a...
An intimate chronicle of the shooting of Ran (1985), a film directed by the legendary Japanese filmm...
Through interviews with people on the street and songs recorded to memorialize JFK in the mid-1960s,...
The Strangest Dream tells the story of Joseph Rotblat, the history of nuclear weapons, and the effor...
A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...
A documentary about a case of police brutality in the 80's NYC, the killing of graffiti artist Micha...
Chasing Asylum tells the story of Australia's cruel, inhumane treatment of asylum seekers and refuge...