From Amos 'n' Andy to Nat King Cole, from Roots to The Cosby Show, black people have played many roles on primetime television. Brilliantly weaving clips from classic TV shows with commentary from TV producers, black actors and scholars, Marlon Riggs blends humor, insight, and thoughtful analysis to explore the evolution of black/white relations as reflected by America's favorite addiction.

Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themsel...

In World War II. African-American GIs liberate Germany from Nazi rule while racism prevailed in thei...

On June 14, 1977, the eve of the first democratic elections after Franco's regime, Llorenç Soler and...

On 15 May, 2006, double amputee Mark Inglis reached the summit of Mt Everest. It was a remarkable ac...

The Black middle class, torn between white goals and Black needs, are examined by producers William ...

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

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...

Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms...
Documentary that describes and analyzes the characteristics, themes and central concerns of Roman Po...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

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

In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and become...

The adventure of the minitel, a small cubic terminal with a folding keyboard that began in the 1970s...

Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nin...