Taking stock of the extraordinary adventure of "Pif Gadget", a French publishing phenomenon of the 1970s-80s and even of the whole history of children's press. For the comic-strip magazine with the iconic dog, created in 1969 by the French Communist Party, often reached a million copies. With editions available for all of Europe (including Germany, under the title Yps), and on both sides of the Iron Curtain.
The film observes the events surrounding the sudden decrease of sales of comic books in the US in th...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
This is an in-depth look at the writer and artist David Mack, who Entertainment Weekly designates "O...

A long overdue documentary that tells the story of 2000AD, the unsung cult hero of the comics indus...

An "Ock-umentary" exploring the character of Doc Ock and the way he as well as his tentacles were br...
Possessed of an incredible artistic talent, Steve Rude is "The Dude," an eccentric personality as co...

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

An innovative and charismatic influencer is suddenly exiled from her community of creative partners ...

The film's protagonists are the orphaned children taken into custody by the state and institutionali...

Documentary about the Groningen comics maker Barbara Stok (1970). She has received worldwide praise ...

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

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who fought against...

In the spring of 1984, a strange new comic book sat beside cash registers in select shops, too big t...
Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

Additional materials for "Major Grom: Plague Doctor" (2021).

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...