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.

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...
This documentary explores the events surrounding the greatest maritime tragedy in the history of the...

A profile of the 1928 Olympic Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland.

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...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...

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