In the late 1960s, Dhofar rose up against the British-backed Sultanate of Oman, in a democratic, anti-imperialist guerrilla movement. Director Heiny Srour and her team crossed 500 miles of desert and mountains by foot, under bombardment by the British Royal Air Force, to reach the conflict zone and capture this rare record of a now mostly-forgotten war.
In Portugal, during the night of April 24-25, 1974, a peaceful uprising put an end to the last gover...
Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to plot world re...
Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the t...
“What kind of person do you think former President Park Geunhye is?” Sohn Seokhee, a journalist, giv...
The film explains the French Revolution of 1848. Bernard Blier's narration is supported by pictures ...
A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 ...
These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream m...
A humor-inflected history of the of the number one, covering military applications in ancient Rome, ...
Amid the tumult of the Arab Spring in Cairo, vendors in a small souk observe the political upheaval ...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...
Restaurateurs, musicians, politicians-everyone loves hummus. A story of faith, community, and growth...
A few years ago, the al-Mahamids fled Bashar al-Assad and Syria to settle in Montreal. A nuanced por...
Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...
In 1952 a young Egyptian colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser led a coup that became a revolution, winni...
A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who fought against...
In Breaking Bread, exotic cuisine and a side of politics are on the menu. Dr. Nof Atamna-Ismaeel - t...
Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast ...
An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct h...