100 years ago Mata Hari faced the firing squad as a convicted Dutch spy. It was at this moment that the legend of Mata Hari, the seductive spy, was born. Newly-discovered documents cast doubt on her guilt and reveal startling truths about her life. Mata Hari was a self-made woman whose boldness and sexuality threatened the male establishment. Most of what we've known about her until now has largely been myth. Mata Hari's challenges as an abused wife, single mother and a creative independent woman are familiar to women around the world. At the turn of the century, her struggles to attain sexual freedom, artistic expression, and liberation from the constraints of conventional society are the same ones women face today. She graced the cover of Vogue, performed all over Europe and left a coterie of smitten admirers in her wake.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

An intimate study of one of the most influential and provocative thinkers of the 20th century tracki...

TOMBOY explores the obstacles that young girls encounter on the recreational stage, the stereotypes,...

A film about what it means to be a woman cycling in different countries around the world. When Manon...

102 Years in the Heart of Europe: A Portrait of Ernst Jünger (Swedish: 102 år i hjärtat av Europa) i...

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This documentary profiles economist and writer Marilyn Waring. In extensive interviews, Waring detai...

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter los...

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Hosted by actor and historian Sir Tony Robinson, this one-off special tells the powerful and moving ...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...

Kristina, a self-named Hungarian female lion tamer, arrives in New York to become a dance choreograp...

1917, The Train from Hell is an historical documentary about a train accident during WW1.

Talented and obedient Red Cross dogs prepare to rescue Berlin's wounded from the Front.

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Neil Oliver describes the worst ever railway accident in the UK, which happened a hundred years ago ...
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Documentary about the role of women in rural northern Swedish society.