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.

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

1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee ...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

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

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

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

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

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latv...

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of t...

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early sta...

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops for...

The Red Arrow is the special train No.1 between Leningrad and Moscow. The film is set in the 1980s d...

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

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

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past ...