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 inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

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...

Devastated by the First World War and plunged into political controversy, Romania's every hope accom...

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...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...

Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for ...

The disintegration of the Soviet Union and the failure of Communism has been symbolically documented...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

Canada was led to war by a bigoted, ignorant, self-obsessed Minister of Militia, who may well have b...

A two-hour documentary which recreates for the viewer one of the greatest battles in Canadian milita...

Canadian military accomplishments in the last hundred days of World War I, when the German Army was ...

A documentary portrait of legendary Perfect Ten gymnast Nadia Comaneci after becoming an icon in the...
This program provides, through 1st hand accounts & contemporary films & photographs, a rare ...

The Gallipoli campaign of World War I was so controversial & devastating, it changed the face of bat...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

A film about the historical uprising of the seamen in Kiel: During the Russian October Revolution of...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...