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.

The adventures of the Lafayette Escadrille, young Americans who volunteered for the French military ...

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

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomein...

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...

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

At the end of May 1918, released prisoners return to the Rumburk garrison from Russian captivity, ho...

A documentary portrait of legendary Perfect Ten gymnast Nadia Comaneci after becoming an icon in the...

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

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...

Author Rudyard Kipling and his wife search for their 17-year-old son after he goes missing during WW...

At the height of the space race, three U.S. astronauts are tapped as the first Apollo crew. With daz...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

The story of Russian writer and Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) and his masterpi...