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.
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
USSR, Late November, 1941. Based on the account by reporter Vasiliy Koroteev that appeared in the Re...
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
The sinking of the Titanic is presented in a highly realistic fashion in this tense British drama. T...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industr...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
CBC News Newfoundland Labrador's documentary entitled “Trail of the Caribou” traces the journey of t...
The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonst...
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the back...
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with ...
Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker...
The life and work of stage designer ADOLPHE APPIA, originator of the most profound agitations in con...
Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...
In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovan...