This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to...

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

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

A Hollywood writer becomes embroiled while investigating into the lives of five fictitious actresses...

From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in wh...

A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his ...
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

A true story. In 1937, a routine passenger and mail flight crashes during bad weather on a flight be...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

The first documentary of Frank Thring’s Cities of the Empire series, this episode is about Melbourne...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

During the worst days of World War II, the British government asks the mathematician Alan Turing to ...

Riding the Rails offers a visionary perspective on the presumed romanticism of the road and cautiona...