In 1892, Ellis Island, in New York Bay, became the main gateway to the United States for immigrants arriving increasingly from Europe. The story of immigration to the United States from 1892 to 1954, an enthralling polyphonic narrative that embraces both small and great history.
A collection of personal anecdotes from those who have navigated through a tumultuous year in Americ...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

Static was filmed from a helicopter circling around the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbour. It wa...

Seeing is to painting what listening is to politics. Survival as an artist demands both. Paint Until...

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

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...

"This film explores how freedom of speech — including dissent — is afforded to all Americans, and sh...

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

Seven strangers are interviewed to talk about the relationship they have with their mother.

From the “integration model” to the “Islamist fanatic”, France fantasizes about these children of im...

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Phil Comeau shines a spotlight on the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, a powerful secret society that opera...

Journalist Émilie Tran Nguyen invites the viewer to follow her in her quest and discover, at the sam...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...