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.)

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

In 1967, experimental filmmaker Jorgen Leth created a striking short film, The Perfect Human, starri...

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

Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...

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

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

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

The Founding of an Army is a 2017 Chinese film commissioned by China's government to commemorate the...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...
Finland’s first nature documentary. The filmmakers’ expedition leads them all the way to the Åland I...

Somewhere in Australia in the early 20th century outback, an Aboriginal man is accused of murdering ...

A walk through the landscapes of the province of Barcelona, Spain, as well as a testimony of the dai...

To historians, physicist Lise Meitner deserves to be placed on a par with Einstein, Heisenberg and O...

House of the Wickedest Man in the World is the story of a ruined building near the city of Cefalú in...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, wher...

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