The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused a scandal in a France still traumatized by the German occupation during World War II, because it shattered the myth, cultivated by the followers of President Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), of a united France that had supposedly stood firm in the face of the ruthless invaders.

Explore the life of Flannery O’Connor whose provocative fiction was unlike anything published before...

In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Do...

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although sco...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

One of sport’s first and most influential megastars, beloved baseball icon and 5-time World Series c...

Near the end of the shogunate in Japan, Katsura Shogoro and his fellow samurai from the southwestern...

Determined to hold on to the throne, Cleopatra seduces the Roman emperor Julius Caesar. When Caesar ...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

For three decades now, Qatar, this small desert kingdom, has not stopped being talked about; because...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

The murder of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh by an Islamic extremist in 2004, followed by the publish...

The portrait of the last cowboy Hollywood legend dives into the 65 years of an extraordinary career ...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...