The Berlin Wall came down in 1989, bringing the reunification of Germany and an end to the Cold War. This documentary revisits the events surrounding the wall's historic collapse. Interviews with George Bush, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl offer insight into political maneuvering while firsthand accounts from Germans provide personal perspectives of this historic event that changed the world forever.

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...

In 1520, the notorious and power-hungry Danish King Christian II is determined to seize the Swedish ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

A sumptuous and sensual tale of intrigue, romance and betrayal set against the backdrop of a definin...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

Filmmaker Steve York explores the controversial 2004 Ukrainian presidential election, during which c...

Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the word...

August 13, 1961: The passengers on the interzonal train from Munich to East Berlin learn 3½ hours be...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

Journalist Dermi Azevedo has never stopped fighting for human rights and now, three decades after th...
The journey of eight diverse youth in China confronting cultural differences. Crossing Borders - Wid...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

This documentary film follows farmers and activists fighting together to stop the Indiana Enterprise...

Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

A native of Sennwald, Anna Göldi arrived in Glarus in 1765. For seventeen years, she worked as a mai...

The documentary tells the story of Camille Cabral, Northeastern woman, transsexual, first Brazilian ...

When a young woman is shot by an undocumented immigrant on Pier 14 in San Francisco, the incident ig...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Ma...