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.
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
While investigating the furtive world of illegal doping in sports, director Bryan Fogel connects wit...
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...
September of 1944, a few days before Finland went out of the Second World War. A chained to a rock F...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
Tsarevich Alexei was one of the smartest people in the state. His father Peter hoped that he would t...
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police in...
This excellent and breathtaking documentary is the result of a long study on the Gulag to try to und...
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...
A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...
Journalist E. E. Kisch tells crime stories from old Prague, which he himself experienced in the year...
Nicknamed the "Harlem Hellfighters", these African-Americans wanted to become ordinary citizens like...
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...
A walk through the life and career of the legendary French photojournalist Christine Spengler, known...
The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaug...
Second attempt to create a feature film out of the 200,000-plus feet of film which Soviet film-maker...
In 2016, DEFA celebrates its 70th anniversary: the film embarks on a journey into the exciting film ...
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croati...