The story of the 1978 World Chess Championship between the Soviet Communist Party's protege, Anatoly Karpov and the traitor and Soviet defector, Viktor Korchnoi. One of those instances in life where truth is stranger than fiction.
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
National Geographic 2011 Documentary on the World's Biggest Bomb (UK).
Three National Security whistleblowers fight to reveal the darkest corners of America's war on terro...
Drawing on the collections of major Russian institutions, contributions from contemporary artists, c...
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzli...
A disturbing collection of 1940s and 1950s United States government-issued propaganda films designed...
An account of the life and work of Russian filmmaker Andrey Tarkovsky (1932-86) in his own words: hi...
Comedian and history buff Al Murray is joined by former director of MI5 Dame Stella Rimington, polit...
Documentary about the Intervision Song Contest in general and the 1980 edition in particular. Focuse...
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...
A film about Chess - from reading to first night
Performed by Constance Smith, Pauline Cushman-Fryer tells us how she became a Union Spy, was almost ...
In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...
Moscow, January 1948. In the bitter cold, a large crowd attends the State Funeral of the Yiddish act...
Based on Dr. Ahron Bregman's book, this documentary examines the life and mysterious death of Ashraf...
YU Wooseong who had been working as a civil servant is on trial for espionage following his sibling’...
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...
Hitler's invasion of Russia was one of the landmark events of World War II. This documentary reveals...
Mikhail Tal. From a Far is a documentary exploring the unpredictable and tragic life of the genius w...
This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...