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.

Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by th...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

A film about the dramatic and extraordinary fate of the lonely man who confronted the meat grinder o...

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugosl...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

The author Carl-Göran Ekerwald has written more than 50 books. At the age of 87, a new chapter in hi...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...

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

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

a poem. trees. fragments of fritz. love—and nothing besides!

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