For 'Et les chiens se taisaient' Maldoror adapted a piece of theatre by the poet and politician Aimé Césaire (1913–2008), about a rebel who becomes profoundly aware of his otherness when condemned to death. His existential dialogue with his mother reverberates around the African sculptures on display at the Musée de l'Homme, a Parisian museum full of colonial plunder whose director was the Surrealist anthropologist Michel Leiris.

In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scar...

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier N...

"Gerboise bleue", the first French atomic test carried out on February 13, 1960 in the Algerian Saha...

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Ka Hoʻina documents members of Hui Mālama I Nā Kūpuna O Hawaiʻi Nei's final repatriation of over 140...

A street in downtown Warsaw transforms into a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society. Behind the v...

The year is 1950 and an English couple, Louise and Michael, have arrived in French-occupied Indochin...

Spain, 2003. An accidental discovery leads Clarence to travel from the snowy mountains of Huesca to ...

This Pixar documentary short follows Sarah Vowell, who plays herself as the title character, on why ...

The incredibly powerful and timely true story of the all-black Twenty-Fourth United States Infantry ...

An idealistic Dutch colonial officer posted to Indonesia in the 19th century is cohvinced that he ca...

An affluent black couple deal with the envitability of a white mob coming to kill them during the 19...

Walter Burton's realistic photographs depicting poor treatment of Maori prisoners are rejected by la...

Hacking at Leaves documents artist and hazmat-suit aficionado Johannes Grenzfurthner as he attempts ...

In 2010, an obsessed gamer designed the perfect game of Sim City. Achieved through a repeating patte...

Krotoa, a feisty, bright, 11-year-old girl is removed from her close-knit Khoi tribe to serve Jan va...