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 dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Michael Cockerell sheds new light on the tragi-comedy of the 1970s by focusing on some of its most c...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) i...

Musings on life and literature in this student drama made by the Cambridge Film Unit.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful...

Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sen...

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

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

Alex Jones interviews Walter Burien, commodity trading adviser (CTA) of 15 years about the biggest g...
Documentary examining the medieval myth of the Philosopher's Stone, a Holy Grail-type relic which su...

Two close friends' plan to execute a flawless crime is crushed when one of them inadvertently leaves...

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

Archaeologist Raksha Dave and historian Dan Snow return to Pompeii to gain special access to a varie...
This is the full length documentary Secrets of Llewellyn Park, the story of America's oldest planned...

Jean-Luc Godard brings his firebrand political cinema to the UK, exploring the revolutionary signals...

New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it...

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