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.

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...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

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

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

An illiterate mountain man, Kit Carson was fluent in Spanish and five Indian languages; he twice mar...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

Watching My Name Go By is a 1976 BBC documentary on the birth of graffiti in New York City, and the ...

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

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

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

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

A fine documentary that details the sordid life of 1970s pornographic actor John Holmes, from the st...

The story of the Londoners recruited to be freedom fighters during the South African apartheid durin...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

Produced by Alfred Higgins Productions with assistance from the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Ac...