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.

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by th...

The era of palace coups in Russia ended with the coronation of a prominent historical figure: Cather...

September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...

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...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...

A film about the dramatic and extraordinary fate of the lonely man who confronted the meat grinder o...

As the Communist Party of China celebrates its 100th anniversary, this documentary looks back at the...

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

Four lucid grandmothers tell their story forgotten by history: the militancy and resistance of the y...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.

After “Letter From a Time of Exile”, the director is back in Lebanon where he discovers that his dre...

Combining footage unseen since WWI with original scores from the era, this film tells the story of N...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...