The remarkable story of Earl Silas Tupper, an ambitious but reclusive small-town inventor, and Brownie Wise, the self-taught sales-woman who built him an empire out of bowls that burped. Brownie was an intuitive marketing genius who trained a small army of Tupperware Ladies to put on Tupperware parties in living rooms across America in the 1950s. She rewarded her sales force with minks and modern appliances at extravagant annual jubilees which the company filmed. her saleswomen earned thousands, even millions, selling Tupperware. And the experience changed their lives.

Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new gener...

This reconstruction refers to a meeting that allegedly took place on 25 November 1804 at Fontaineble...

During the Vietnam War, the CIA recruited Hmong tribesmen in the hills of Laos to fight the Communis...
The Castro revolution was just consolidating its power when, in 1961, over 100,000 students were sen...

Every year, tens of thousands don the Red Suit for families, parties and parades, but only a handful...
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...

Before there was Disneyland, there was Coney Island. By the turn of the century, this tiny piece of...

British surrealist Leonora Carrington was a key part of the surrealist movement during its heyday in...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

In 1980, the first march of gays, lesbians and transvestites took place in Brazil in protest against...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

Beginning just after the bloody Sioux victory over General Custer at Little Big Horn, the story is t...

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past ...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...