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.

March 1945, on the frontlines of the Tatra Mountains, Romanian and German soldiers prepare for battl...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners tr...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...


Helke Sander interviews multiple German women who were raped in Berlin by Soviet soldiers in May 194...

Romantic art was a response to the social upheavals of the 19th century, as shown by works by its em...

The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic mom...

Based upon the true story of Olga Benário, the German-born wife of Brazilian communist leader Luís C...

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

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politi...

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

The documentary of the Nuremberg War Trials of 21 Nazi dignitaries held after World War II.

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...