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.

A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...

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

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

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...

Between June 1940 and March 1943, the 1,200 kilometer long demarcation line broke France in two. For...

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

1945: The last days of the war. In a remote mountain hut, Anton, a deserted SS man, and Hannah, a Je...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

The battles between the ruling empires and houses of nobility that would decide the fate of the Cauc...

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

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

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

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

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with...

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...

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

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