A documentary that chronicles the life of South African leader Nelson Mandela. Mandela is probably best known for his 27 years of imprisonment, and for bringing an end to apartheid. But this film also sheds light on the little-known early period of Mandela's life.
The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rig...
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of ...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans dis...
The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from wo...
Programming prodigy and information activist Aaron Swartz achieved groundbreaking work in social jus...
Fela Anikulapo Kuti created the musical movement Afrobeat and used it as a political forum to oppose...
The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (194...
Concerning Violence is based on newly discovered, powerful archival material documenting the most da...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
Oscar-winner Michael Moore dives right into hostile territory with his daring and hilarious one-man ...
Twenty years ago, seven superstar artists left Marvel Comics to create their own company, Image Comi...
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by workin...
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher w...
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian....
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find t...
Co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of Sea Shepherd, Captain Watson is part pirate, part philosophe...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...