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.

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

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

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

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

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

Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

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

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

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...

This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

The biggest trial of Nazi war crimes ever: 360 witnesses in 183 days of trial - a stunning and gripp...

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

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

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