At Evergreen Primary School in Wuhan, China, a Grade 3 class learns what democracy is when an election for class monitor is being held. Three children are chosen by the teacher as candidates and they have a few days to campaign and convince their classmates to vote for them. The little candidates are seen at school and at home, where their parents do their best to make sure their child will win the election.

The film uses a documentary approach to tell the stories of 12 Chinese pioneers, chosen from the fie...

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...

10 years before the debut of the Ultimate Fighting Championship. In 1979, Bill Viola and Frank Cali...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

A profile of writer-director Billy Wilder

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A documentary about the Synthwave scene, nostalgia and the universe of creating sounds. A love lette...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...


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Cinema and painting establish a fluid dialogue and begins with introspection in the themes and forms...

Martin Scorsese is among those paying tribute to Gene Tierney, the Academy Award-nominated American ...

A documentary film on the making of 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind'


Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

The Pony Express delivered mail from coast to coast for only 18 months. Yet during its brief glory d...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...