A video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we watch it.

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of g...

At the close of Jacques Chirac's life, politician Jean-Louis Debré has wished to make a film to cele...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...

A look at the 1950s muscle men's magazines and the representative industry which were popular suppos...

They’ve become the human face of inhuman barbarity. Leaders like Hitler, Idi Amin Dada, Stalin, Kim ...

The screening room used to be a microcosm of a larger world, filled with churning emotions and explo...

A dream walk through the United States of America; a meditation on the thoughts and ideals of its in...

The exciting story of the splitting of the atom, a scientific breakthrough of incalculable importanc...

About the countless faces, memories, love, and people that exist between love and pickle.

The thrilling story of an elite group of Cuban spies sent undercover to the US in the 1990s. From th...

An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a...

A poetic and beautiful tribute to the city of Bergen, Norway. Based on archive footage from the last...

Documentary examining Bokassa's rule in the Central African Republic using the testimony of witnesse...

How did Nazi Germany, from limited natural resources, mass unemployment, little money and a damaged ...

The enigma of the personality cult is revealed in the grand spectacle of Stalin’s funeral. The film ...