Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come into power. (Followed by Hitler's Hollywood, 2017.)
Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Qu...
In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...
Explore how one man's relentless drive and invention of the atomic bomb changed the nature of war fo...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding memb...
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...
How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged ...
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Pe...
Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...
Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.
A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the m...
Set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj, t...
An account of the journey that King Alfonso XIII of Spain made to the impoverished shire of Las Hurd...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
The first documentary of Frank Thring’s Cities of the Empire series, this episode is about Melbourne...
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...