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.

In post-World War I Winnipeg, a Ukrainian immigrant and a Jewish woman get caught up in a labour str...

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, an Argentinian actress who eventually became the ...

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

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

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

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

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

Richthofen goes off to war like thousands of other men. As fighter pilots, they become cult heroes f...

Amanda is a divorced woman who makes a living as a photographer. During the Fall of the year Amanda ...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

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

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and...

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

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

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

A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...

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