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.

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...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy La...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides a...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Television was invented as a result of scientific and technical research. Its power as a medium of n...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

The hard-working cinema owners and operators of the small towns found in BC's southern interior are ...
A small Moravian town near Brno in the 1920s. In a forest clearing, the mentally disabled Fricek dis...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

1936. As villages across Palestine rise against British colonial rule, Yusuf drifts between his rura...

Outtakes, commentary from Zefier's third film: Jo; or The Act of Riding a Bike.

A short documentary by Sonny Garrett about the life, work and philosophy of William Blake featuring ...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and in...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

A poetic journey through the paths and places of old Castile that were traveled and visited by the m...