A photographic journey compiled from journals, archival footage and photographs of an Australian military photographer, Sir Hubert Wilkins in 1931 as he went from New York to the North Pole in an old WWI submarine to explore the Arctic Ocean. Included on dvd are a brief history of the submarine and photographic gallery of Wilkins.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

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

In 2016, a young Austrialian filmmaker began documenting amateur inventor Peter Madsen. One year in,...

Every winter for decades, the Northwest Territories, in the Canadian Far North, changes its face. Wh...

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

12,000 feet down, life is erupting. Alvin, a deep-sea mechanized probe, makes a voyage some 12,000 f...

A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his ...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Robert Llewellyn examines the enduring appeal of submarine movies, finding a beached Cold War Russia...

Wildlife cameraman Gordon Buchanan travels to the frozen north, deep inside the Arctic Circle, to me...
Otakar Vávra walks through Prague in front of the camera and with the camera, and remembers those wh...

Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects o...

This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer hom...
"Adrift" is shot on the arctic island of Spitzbergen and in Norway. It combines time-lapse photograp...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

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

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...