At the time of Tunisian independence, owners of large boats decide to sell, while many small fishermen soon find themselves without work. Their wives then decide to pool their gold rings to sell them and thus buy boats.

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry ...

Drawing from never-before-seen footage that has been tucked away in the National Geographic archives...

A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...

Christof Wackernagel, best known in Germany as an actor and former member of the Red Army Faction ("...

The image of French prisoners was very often evoked in Algerian cinema and literature, but until tod...

Filmmaker Karim Aïnouz decides to take a boat, cross the Mediterranean, and embark on his first jour...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

Every year, on the steppes of the Serengeti, the most spectacular migration of animals on our planet...

Filmmaker Christopher Quinn observes the ordeal of three Sudanese refugees -- Jon Bul Dau, Daniel Ab...

Paratrooper commander Colonel Mathieu, a former French Resistance fighter during World War II, is se...

The story of Kenyan athlete David Rudisha, the greatest 800m runner the world has ever seen, and his...

Many geneticists and archaeologists have long surmised that human life began in Africa. Dr. Spencer ...

Two brothers are divided by marriage and fate during the 100 horrifying days of the 1994 Rwandan gen...

This excellent feature-length documentary - the story of the imperialist colonization of Africa - is...