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.

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

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

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

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

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relation...