Portugal, 1944. In a country oppressed by a brutal dictatorship, there are those who resist and mobilize the people to fight for bread and freedom, even if it cost them prison, torture or their lives.

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

The insatiably curious and headstrong inventor Leonardo da Vinci leaves Italy to join the French cou...

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, 1876. A secret society of Irish coal miners, bond by a sacred oath,...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The...

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

In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

The Color Print of Edo is a 1939 black and white Japanese silent film with benshi accompaniment dire...

Tito's break-up with Stalin in 1948 marked the beginning of not only confusing, but also very danger...

In Western Germany, two brothers and their organization help people escape to non-communist Germany....

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

When loyalty to country becomes loyalty to a lie, one teen risks everything to expose the truth. Wit...

Ravi, a critic, comes across the writings of K T N Kottoor. Highly inspired by what he reads, he tra...

At the age of 11, Li was plucked from a poor Chinese village by Madame Mao's cultural delegates and ...

Having suffered as a boy under a brutal Communist-era coach, champion Hungarian gymnast Miklos moves...

In 1937, amidst Stalin's Great Terror, a newly appointed prosecutor for the USSR is made aware of al...
In the spring of 1945 the war is still going on, but in Bulgaria the communists have already seized ...