Upon the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War in July 1936, the anarchist union CNT socialized the film industry in Spain, so in Madrid and Barcelona film workers took over the production assets and, between 1936 and 1938, numerous films on a wide variety of topics were released, composing a varied mosaic that gives rise to one of the most unusual and original moments of Spanish cinematography.

Ridley Scott's cult film Blade Runner, based on a novel by Philip K. Dick and released in 1982, is o...

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

Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The f...

Documentary about the making of the 1962 cult film "Carnival of Souls".

During the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) and the Second World War (1939-1945), around three thousand...

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

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

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

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
The film follows Samuel Murphy who, after the death of his wife, is imprisoned in a labor camp run b...

A retrospective look at the global impact of Alien, the science fiction and horror masterpiece direc...

A biographical documentary about the great British actor and director Charlie Chaplin (1889-1977), f...

During the 2018 Brazilian presidential elections, a woman floats in waters far from home. When every...

In a series of four documentaries, Marcel Ophuls pays tribute to his father Max, and in this last on...

Cousins Menahem Golan and Yoram Globus relive the creation, rise and fall of their independent film ...

An analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the stylistic si...

Interview with Jacques Tati on the set of his 1967 film "PlayTime". Produced for the British televis...

An account of the life and work of Swiss painter, sculptor, architect and designer H. R. Giger (1940...

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

American boy Peter and blind minstrel Ivan are thrown together by fate amidst the turbulent mid-30s ...