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.

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

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

Russia is grappling with a critical issue: they have become the country with the most at large seria...

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

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

Gouge - a documentary tracing The Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yo...
Johan van der Keuken explains, "Some fifteen filmmakers were asked to make a film series in a relay ...

We get up, go to work, eat and go to bed. Is our life about daily rituals or is there a deeper, more...

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

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

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

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

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, do...

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

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

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

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

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

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...