Russia is a highly developed, wired, and educated nation, but endures third-world levels of corruption and a repressive, autocratic government. Many Russians explain this paradox by citing the Russian soul, a unique national mindset, born out of their turbulent history that wants dictatorship. Is that possible, or are free speech and democracy universal values?

Recently discovered footage reveals the secret history of NASA's first landing on the moon, and usin...

Who were the men and women of Project Apollo? Where are they today? What do they think of the extrao...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...

Who are the people behind the international anti-Covid-vaccine movement and why are they doing it? T...

The political ad "Peace Little Girl" aired during the 1964 presidential campaign ushered in a new er...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...
Covering China's powerful leader, his signature foreign policy, U.S.-China trade and technology wars...

This documentary accompanies the journey of artists who exalt and celebrate ancestry and the orishas...

The film tells the story of the Rote Zora, a militant women’s group in the FRG, which in the 1970s a...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

Christian Garcia, a fiercely dedicated Latino political organizer, leads a team of young people mobi...

When the renowned author, orator and journalist Christopher Hitchens was challenged to undergo the b...

Vigilantes Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen The 2024 election is in danger: 8,500 self-...

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

An 8-year journey into divided America, The American Question examines the insidious roots of polari...

The story of January 6, 2021, where approximately 2000 people stormed the US Capitol to stop the cer...

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to su...