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.

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

A traveling theatre troupe tours the Greek countryside from 1939 to the early 1950s, staging “Golfo ...

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

The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his stran...

E. T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Steven Spielberg's endearing movie released in 1982, achieved the tripl...
A documentary by Olivier Gonard, shot partly in Paris’s Musée d’Orsay, that examines Olivier Assayas...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...
After starting his career producing religious film shorts, J. Arthur Rank went on to become Britain'...

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

A portrait of the actress and singer Pepa Flores, an incarnation of the recent history of Spain, who...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-film...

Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Al Pacino in conversation about The Irishman.

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

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...