The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at the man, at the roots of his philosophy, at the causes and explanations of his philosophical development, and at its most direct outcome: the failed Soviet Union.

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...