Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will end with the takeover of the government by Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks.

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

In 1917 when the British forces are bogged down in front of the Turkish and German lines in Palestin...

Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.

Not everything has been told about World War One. This documentary tries to explain how tens of mill...

Short biographical documentary about the life of Alfred Florstedt and his life as a progressive comm...

Professor Niall Ferguson argues that Britain's decision to enter the First World War was a catastrop...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

Director Michael Apted revisits the same group of British-born adults after a 7 year wait. The subje...

The "unsinkable" Titanic was a dream come true: four city blocks long and a passenger list worth 250...

Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...

In northern Finland in the fall of 1916, Saima Niva rescues a man drifting in the river, who turns o...

Three Days is a feature film exploring the on-and-off-tour lives of Jane's Addiction. Set predominat...
This film records the vast public response to the early death of Vera Kholodnaya, the first star of ...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War me...
Once described by the press as "one of the most controversial figures on the Australian art scene", ...

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...