Leningrad, 1970. A group of young Jewish dissidents plot to hijack an empty plane and escape the USSR. Caught by the KGB a few steps from boarding, they were sentenced to years in the gulag and two were sentenced to death; they never got on a plane. 45 years later, filmmaker Anat Zalmanson-Kuznetsov reveals the compelling story of her parents, leaders of the group, "heroes" in the West but "terrorists" in Russia, even today.

It is the early 20th century. Tevye the Dairyman lives in a small village in Ukraine. He is poor and...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and invest...

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

Bible expert Bill Gallatin explores biblical prophecies from the Book of Revelation that have transp...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

A Jewish ghetto in the east of Europe, 1944. By coincidence, Jakob Heym eavesdrops on a German radio...

In 1943, while the Allies are bombing Berlin and the Gestapo is purging the capital of Jews, a dange...

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

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

He is a nobleman, and she is a serf. They are not meant to be together. Perhaps this love story woul...

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of t...

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early sta...

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...

King David enters into an adulterous affair with the beautiful Bathsheba, which has tragic consequen...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...