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.

My grandfather fought alongside Pancho Villa, became Master Mason, was an elected official who repre...

A documentary on the rise and fall of Project Cybersyn, an attempt at a computer-managed centralized...

Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...

Did Leonardo da Vinci come up with all of his ideas and inventions by himself or did he also borrow ...

A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...

On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty undergro...

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

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

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

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

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

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

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...

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

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

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

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...