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.

Examines the history of the African kings from Kush who conquered Egypt and ruled over it for 1500 y...

From 1945 to 1989, after the capitulation of Nazi Germany, two rival ideologies, communism and capit...

After her anti-fascist professor father is dismissed, Yukie navigates love, political repression, an...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Universally recognized as the greatest female skier ever, Lindsey Vonn went on a remarkable journey ...

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