From Rockefeller's first oil wells in 1860 to the recent war in Iraq, oil has been the driving force behind the tragic history of the 20th century. As a vital and strategic raw material, it has been at the heart of all political calculations. So much so that the world of oil has always been dominated by opacity and misinformation. The film lifts the veil on carefully guarded secrets and provides keys to understanding the issues surrounding oil, at a time when a veritable war over resources is underway.

How the Monuments Came Down is a timely and searing look at the history of white supremacy and Black...

Albert Fish, the horrific true story of elderly cannibal, sadomasochist, and serial killer, who lure...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
"You who enter, leave all your hope behind." Själö was Finland's first mental hospital. The hospital...

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

PUMP is a documentary that tells the story of America’s addiction to oil, from its corporate conspir...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

A story of the exploits carried out by the oil technicians of Baku for the exploitation of the black...

A documentary about the history of settler groups that came to New Zealand from Europe.

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...