In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay through political violence. This film combines drama, archive and documentary interviews to examine Robespierre's year in charge of the Committee Of Public Safety - the powerful state machine at the heart of Revolutionary France. Contesting Robespierre's legacy is Slavoj Zizek, who argues that terror in the cause of virtue is justifiable, and Simon Schama, who believes the road from Robespierre ran straight to the gulag and the 20th-century concentration camp. The drama, based on original sources, follows the life-and-death politics of the Committee during "Year Two" of the new Republic.
Ed Kemper, also known as the Co-Ed Killer, murdered and dismembered 10 people, including his own mot...
Norwegian documentary from 2013. The Kensington stone was found in 1898 in Minnesota, USA. The dispu...
In the mid 1800s, New York City was one of the most crowded places on earth. The congested streets a...
A 2004 documentary on thirty years of alternative rock 'n roll in NYC.Documenting the history from t...
On the edge of the 30th anniversary of punk rock, Punk's Not Dead takes you into the sweaty undergro...
Documentary examining the medieval myth of the Philosopher's Stone, a Holy Grail-type relic which su...
This time, in “Atlantida”, Puertas wanders through stories based on memories he keeps from his homet...
Gouge - a documentary tracing The Pixies' story featuring interviews with Bono, David Bowie, Thom Yo...
The history of New York City's Apollo Theater in Harlem is given the full treatment.
Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...
At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...
A man that is a stranger, is an incredibly easy man to hate. However, walking in a stranger’s shoes...
Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...
What happened to painter Beatriz González, who made us laugh with the irony of her works, to get to ...
Arguably second only to Muddy Waters among the Mississippi Delta singers who traveled north and pion...
Walter Bonatti is THE mountaineering legend, capable of meeting the great challenges of mountaineeri...
Music documentary by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela
The film provides a historical overview of the history of the Palestinians between 1948-1974 and sho...