The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding of the Cinecittà studios and the successful birth of a domestic star system, populated by very peculiar artists among whom stood out several beautiful, magnetic, special actresses; a dark story of war, drugs, sex, censorship and tragedy.
Filmmaker Jonas Mekas follows his friend, film director Martin Scorsese, and his cast and crew, thro...
In 1936, 18 African American athletes dubbed the "black auxiliary" by Hitler defied Nazi Aryan Supre...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
The lifelong friendship between Rafe McCawley and Danny Walker is put to the ultimate test when the ...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The true, harrowing story of a young Jewish girl who, with her family and their friends, is forced i...
A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 ...
Spanish Civil War, May, 1938. Four villages in Castellón, Benassal, Albocàsser, Ares del Maestrat an...
Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army en...
In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...
An account of the life and work of American film director Sam Peckinpah (1925-84), a tortured artist...
Covering over 100 years of cinema, this is a journey of discovering and exploring the magic of cinem...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fou...
1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...
In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...