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.

On April 18, 1955, the pathologist performing the autopsy on Albert Einstein covertly steals the gen...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n...

Towards the end of WWII, the Navy gave the Kyoto University's physics lab the secret of a bomb that ...

Follows the 1936 Berlin Olympics when Black athlete Jesse Owens won 4 golds against the backdrop of ...

Japan, 1860. The men of the Mito clan, victims of the Ansei purge, anxiously prowl around the Sakura...

Combining personal accounts with archive footage, this film features the voices of some of the only ...

The tragic and shocking story of the notorious Magdalene Laundries, a shameful system, created by th...

Wim Wenders talks with Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto about the creative process and ponde...

Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929...

The film focuses on the icon of Hollywood’s golden age, Humphrey Bogart, and is framed around his re...
After spending the first 16 years of her life with her Canadian mother, Reema re-connects with her I...

In 1914, the Czech architect Jan Letzel designed in the Japanese city of Hiroshima Center for the Wo...

The film takes a look at the daily lives of people in more than two dozen countries around the world...

Could psychedelics treat depression? Banned substances such as LSD and psilocybin are now being test...

Paul Bedel will be 75 soon. He's and old bachelor, a peasant, a fisherman and a verger. He lives in ...

One hundred years of the cinematic memory of a small country told through motion graphics. A brief t...

An Irish doctor survived the atomic bomb attack on Nagasaki and was given a Samurai sword for the li...

An experimental short film using only free archival footage.

The Other Side of the Atlantic is a documentary that builts a bridge in the ocean that separates Bra...