In the Russian Empire of the 1910s, a group of visionary painters revolutionized the aesthetic norms of their time and opted for radical abstraction. In the years between the seizure of power by the Russian Bolsheviks and Stalinism in the 1930s, the avant-gardists developed a new form of art that ushered in modernism.

Countless painters, photographers, filmmakers and musicians have been influenced by Hopper's art – b...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

1911. Lenin organizes the first Bolshevik party school near Paris, in the small town of Longjumeau. ...

Petrograd, Soviet Union, 1920s. Boris Letush, devastated by a personal tragedy, feels the need to pu...

Tito del Amo, a passionate 72-year-old researcher, takes the final step to unravel the enigma about ...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

In 1988, art student Damien Hirst and a group of like-minded associates mounted an exhibition in a b...

"Ryuta is 5 years old. Even though he is my son, I sometimes wonder what this small person is to me....

A film in which the one 60-story skyscraper that soars in the spaces between roofs spins with incred...

This 56-minute documentary on America's most controversial and unique composer manages to cover a gr...

Man Ray, the master of experimental and fashion photography was also a painter, a filmmaker, a poet,...

Alan Yentob profiles the most successful female architect there has ever been, the late Zaha Hadid, ...

Explorations in 21st Century American Architecture Series: Ray Kappe has long been a cult figure in...

No understanding of the modern movement in architecture is possible without knowledge of its master ...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

The life and death of famous Korean singer, Yun Sim-deok in the 1920s.

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.