This film examines Trotsky, the revolutionary; venerated and reviled, loved, hated, feared. Archive material compiled from all over the world, citations and new shoots create an electrifying proximity to the historical person and to the man Leo Trotsky. Stages in his life and eventual flight are carefully examined, from St. Petersburg, to Mexico City. This is the riveting political biography of the Revolution's onetime hero.
Michael Moore's view on how the Bush administration allegedly used the tragic events on 9/11 to push...
A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany aft...
Taking stock of the extraordinary adventure of "Pif Gadget", a French publishing phenomenon of the 1...
Procreation is the social duty of all fertile women, was the political thinking during the 1960s and...
A disturbing chapter in Russian history is explored in this documentary. In 1933, Joseph Stalin sent...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Stonehenge is an icon of prehistoric British culture, an enigma that has seduced archaeologists and ...
Professor Saul David uses the BBC archive to chart the history of the world's most destructive war, ...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
The film interweaves the personal accounts of polio survivors with the story of an ardent crusader w...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then ...
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...
Napalm is the story of the breathtaking and brief encounter, in 1958, between a French member of the...
1969. Man lands on the moon. Half a million strong at Woodstock....and Led Zeppelin perform in the g...