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.)
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...

Still today, people say that during the stormy night from March 31st to April 1st, 1922, the devil h...

The life and death of famous Korean singer, Yun Sim-deok in the 1920s.

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar...

A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...
The film follows Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run b...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...

Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Qu...

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...

A biographical film about Finnish singer J. Alfred Tanner and his path through a failed career as a ...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...

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

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attem...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...