For 70 years, the Red Army was one of the pillars of the USSR, an object of both fear and admiration, a symbol of both liberation and coercion. This documentary explores its history, combining epic storytelling with the deconstruction of myth. While everyone knows that Trotsky's name is attached to his creation, contrary to popular belief, the bulk of his story is made up of defeats and military failures. Thanks to an all-archival montage, this film is a veritable immersion in the heart of...

Shortly before Christmas 1744, Vienna, the center of power in the Habsburg Empire, is the scene of a...

A US Army officer, who made a "friendly fire" mistake that was covered up, has been reassigned to a ...

Born in 1932, Keiko Kishi has been one of the first Japanese actresses known worldwide. Her decision...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

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

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

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

Explores the Pyramids of Giza as Egyptologists try to unravel the mysteries and decipher the clues b...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

Set during the 1939–1940 Winter War, the film follows a group of young women from Leningrad who volu...

1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee ...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

It’s the spring of 1945 in a small resort town on the Baltic. Günter is 16 and firmly believes that ...