Leni Riefenstahl's flamboyant Nazi aesthetics shaped the public image of the 1936 Olympics. Never before had sports and politics been mixed. Through archive photos and reconstructions, we get a closer look into the historical propaganda show.

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the m...

In 1609, Henry IV sent Inquisition judge Pierre de Lancre to the French Basque Country to investigat...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

This colorful documentary chronicles the events of the 1968 Winter Olympics in France. The events ma...

What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

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

The Polish city of Łódź was under Nazi occupation for nearly the entirety of WWII. The segregation o...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...