On June 5, 1989, one day after Chinese troops expelled thousands of demonstrators from Tiananmen Square in Beijing, a solitary, unarmed protester stood his ground before a column of tanks advancing down the Avenue of Eternal Peace. Captured by Western photographers watching nearby, this extraordinary confrontation became an icon of the fight for freedom around the world. FRONTLINE investigates the mystery of the tank man — his identity, his fate, and his significance for the Chinese leadership.

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

1918 year. One of the southern cities is captured by the Whites. An underground Bolshevik committee ...

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Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

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As the 'one country two systems' policy in Hong Kong has slowly eroded, resentment among the territo...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...

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

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

How do you reconcile a commitment to non-violence when faced with violence? Why do the poor often se...

The opening of The Vasulka Effect couldn’t be more apt: Steina Vasulka addresses her husband Woody t...

Rubiks’ Road is a bicycle path built in the 1980s and named after Alfreds Rubiks, leader of the Latv...

In 1977, a book of photographs captured an awakening - women shedding the cultural restrictions of t...

The implantation of African traders in Guangzhou is a recent phenomenon, on which Marie Voignier rep...

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early sta...

Depicts the bloody siege of the fortress of Port Arthur, one of the most strongly fortified position...

Many times during his presidency, Lyndon B. Johnson said that ultimate victory in the Vietnam War de...