French film and WWII historian Sylvie Lindeperg analyzes Alain Resnais's seminal 1956 film, "Night and Fog", and attempts to place it in the context of the historical treatment of WWII, and specifically of the Holocaust, in the decade following those harrowing events. Oddly, she argues that the images of Resnais's famous film are "powerless", in her words.

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

Eminent classical historian Robin Lane Fox embarks on a journey in search of the origins of the Gree...

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

Marking the 75th Anniversary of the end of WWII, the documentary features the first-hand accounts of...

Documentary using archival footage, newsreels and contemporary interviews with women of the WW2 Aust...

Betty Van Sevenant, a young resistance fighter from Bruges, arrested in March 1942, was declared "Na...

How could a German Wehrmacht soldier become a celebrated soccer idol of the Britons in the post-war ...

The story of the Holocaust survivors in Poland (1946-1949). Based on the films of Nathan Gross and S...

This rare documentary was filmed with the participation and personal camera of Wolfgang Gorther, a G...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

A BFA Educational media production on western expansion via railroads and the role they played in th...

See Kenneth W. Rendell's collection of over 6,000 artifacts that range from the end of World War I a...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

Easy Company, the 2nd Battalion of the 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment of the 101st Airborne Divis...

The documentary is titled after Arkadaş Z. Özger’s poem “Hello My Dear” which had caused much contro...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.