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.

China, during the rule of the Qing Dynasty. The arranged marriage between Wang Lung, a humble farmer...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
Producer Samuel Cummins, along with five participants in World War I, discuss the key events of the ...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

A Jewish boy separated from his family in the early days of WWII poses as a German orphan and is tak...

When German knights invade Russia, Prince Alexander Nevsky must rally his people to resist the formi...

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic exped...

A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now ...

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...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

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

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

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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

The events in Sarajevo in June 1914 are the backdrop for a thriller directed by Andreas Prochaska an...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...