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.

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

In 1937, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War, the Imperial Japanese Army has just capt...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

At the height of the space race, three U.S. astronauts are tapped as the first Apollo crew. With daz...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...

The 2008 Summer Olympics opening ceremony was held at the Beijing National Stadium, also known as th...