In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombings in 1945— followed by a spectacular rebirth, Tokyo, the old city of Edo, has become the largest and most futuristic capital in the world in a transformation process fueled by the exceptional resilience of its inhabitants, and nourished by a unique phenomenon of cultural hybridization.

X-ray images were invented in 1895, the same year in which the Lumière brothers presented their resp...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...

Coverage of the glorious Olympic Opening Ceremony of the Games in Tokyo. The 2020 Summer Olympics op...

Anna Tsuchiya blasts back in time playing an oiran, a top-notched geisha of the Edo period’s Yoshiwa...

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gaine...

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

A tribute to Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci (1926-90), presented by American filmmaker Quentin Ta...

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the mo...

Set in past, present, and future South Africa — an invitation into a poetic, memory-driven explorati...

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

A journey that follows the Ganges from its source deep within the Himalayas through to the fertile B...

A documentary film exposing the truth about psychics and fortune-tellers. All the ins and outs of ma...

Elvis Costello: Mystery Dance, the first-ever documentary portrait of one of the greatest musicians ...

The race for supremacy in the age of artificial intelligence is on: between the USA, China and Europ...

Produced by the Army Pictorial Service, Signal Corps, with the cooperation of the Army Air Forces an...

A French documentary or, one might say more accurately, a mockumentary, by director William Karel wh...