A retrospective on the great election battles of the past in the United States: the Kennedy-Nixon debate in 1960, the first ever to be televised; the Republican campaign of 1972, which proved to be the starting point for the Watergate scandal; and the electoral strategy of Barack Obama in 2008, the first election to fully exploit the potential of the Internet.

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...

A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—onl...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...

In the bitter winter of 1978, four desperate council members from a small Virginia town hatched a da...

In 1977, BBC music presenter Bob Harris was given exclusive and extensive access to the Queen. Condu...

This definitive music documentary, featuring a greatest hits soundtrack and bounty of classic perfor...

This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey, in which a City Councilman...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative...

1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: he won his first US Open, while also reaching bot...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent...

Wallis Simpson is one of the most reviled women of the 20th century. It was to marry this twice-divo...

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: h...

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

A story that questions the shaming of the US through revisionist history, lies and omissions by educ...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...