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 film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

Before her death, Emma reflects on her life; beginning with her childhood, up through her final year...

In the 19th century, China held the monopoly on tea, which was dear and fashionable in the West, and...

When the first railroads were built some two hundred years ago, they brought about a revolutionary c...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

In the first decades of the 20th century, when life was being transformed by scientific innovations,...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

The legendary true story of a small band of soldiers who sacrificed their lives in hopeless combat a...

A documentary picture about Finnish Americans. A husband, wife, and a daughter are travelling in the...

Young, inexperienced members of the Dutch Boarder Patrol undergo an intensive training on escorting ...

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...

As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the politi...

In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our histo...

Abner Hale, a rigid and humorless New England missionary, marries the beautiful Jerusha Bromley and ...

The film centers mostly around the personal and professional life of Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson, a b...