1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. Through a chain of historical parallels and associations, this time is intertwined with the events of the Paris Commune, the October Revolution and the political struggles of the post-revolutionary years.
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news age...
Whatever Comes Next is a documentary about the curious and dynamic life of Annemarie Mahler-Ettinger...
Chronicle of the life of Russian poet Michail Lermontov, from the final days of Alexandr Pushkin to ...
In 1916, a new Russian governor is sent to the Kazakhstan steppes by the Tsar and tries to impose ma...
Young lawyer Ruth Bader Ginsburg teams with her husband Marty to bring a groundbreaking case before ...
This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Clara Barton, the founder of the Red Cross.
The life of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, during the years leading up to and during the French ...
A short film made by Yuri Norstein for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution, The 25th - th...
A film about a man with a breakthrough history of Poland in the background. Edward Gierek is one of ...
A personal and captivating account of the extraordinary life and work of Ingrid Bergman (1915-82), a...
Chronicle Caste War in Yucatan held in the nineteenth century, where the land and the people were th...
A biopic of Martin Luther, covering his life between 1505 and 1530, and the birth of the Protestant ...
A featurette on L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and other children's books.
Oei, later known as Katsushika Oi, was born the third daughter of Edo’s talented painter Katsushika ...
The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched techno...
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. ...