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.

Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

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

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

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

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

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

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

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

Out of her love for the great thinker Leibniz, Queen Charlotte commissions a portrait of him. During...

A joint fight of Macedonian and Greek people against the fascist monarchical government of Greece en...

A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugosl...
Pianist Richard Glazier offers a unique view of Broadway and Hollywood music using fascinating inter...

Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, promptin...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

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

China is the only civilization that continues to hold sway throughout its entire territory as define...

A documentary that investigates the complexity of a nation, Albania, through the narration of the co...

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