The 1950s were a time marked by an idealistic feeling. The atomic age, with its promise to save humanity, revolutionized the world, technologically, socially and politically. All these factors gave birth to one of the most prolific film genres in the history of cinema: science fiction, which delighted the audience. Only a few years later, these same spectators saw on their television screens how the Russians launched the Sputnik into space.

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

A look at the Mau Mau Rebellion of the 1950s as experienced by filmmaker Donald McWilliams.

Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...
NUMEC: How Israel Stole the Atomic Bomb and Killed JFK. Terrorists took advantage of the massive we...

The first American space station Skylab is found in pieces scattered in Western Australia. Putting t...

A featurette detailing NASA's plans for putting humans on Mars over the next twenty or thirty years,...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...

"Trinity and Beyond" is an unsettling yet visually fascinating documentary presenting the history of...
Mento was the first national music of Jamaica and it begat Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and the Dancehall...

A testament to NASA's Apollo program of the 1960s and '70s. Composed of actual NASA footage of the m...

This was the only documentary made in the aftermath of the atomic bombings of 1945. Japanese filmmak...

The Manhattan Project was an enormous undertaking that required the efforts of many of the world's m...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of t...

In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...