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.

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

A feature length, lively - montage style - documentary, capturing the essence of what life was like ...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

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

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead h...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

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

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

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

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

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

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

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...