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 group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

Sean McAllister's bleak, extraordinarily intimate film offers an insight into the lives of 35 year o...

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 ...

For two thousand years, caravans traveled from Xian in China along the Silk Road to Istanbul, a hub ...

After the fall of the Berlin Wall, thousands of documents were hastily shredded by the dreaded GDR p...

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...

With commentary from Hollywood stars, outtakes from his movies and footage from his youth, this docu...

The Channel Tunnel linking Britain with France is one of the seven wonders of the modern world but w...

A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and th...
A short biography of life of St Thomas More. Contains clips from the 1966 feature film "A Man For A...

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

The Great Northwest is a documentary film based on the re-creation of a 3,200 mile road-trip made in...

Confronted with death, National Health Service founder Aneurin ‘Nye’ Bevan’s deepest memories lead h...

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

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

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...
A homeless man living in a encampment in Minneapolis tells his perspective on the ongoing crisis of ...