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.

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

The film accompanies the investigation of the historian Sidney Aguilar after the discovery of bricks...

After nearly 42 years one fine morning a FAX arrives at the Kolkata Metro Railways Headquarters. It ...

The final oral exam in history and social studies at one of Warsaw's high schools. The film illustra...

It had been 50 years since two Avro Lancaster bombers flew side by side. The Canadian Warplane Herit...

Hong Kong, 1978. South Korean actress Choi Eun-hee is kidnapped by North Korean operatives following...

The Chinese global machine has been invited to revitalise the ailing Swedish town of Kalmar. The tow...

A collection of short films made by the Lumiere brothers, a team of pioneering filmmakers in turn-of...

Gary is turning into a dinosaur, and Eric must find the cure. This becomes a globetrotting journey ...

Byzance uses a text by Stefan Zweig to describe the Ottoman conquest of the city in 1453. Before he ...

All of Pialat's Turkish films are uniquely interested in the country — especially Istanbul — as it w...

Maître Galip is the most poetic and powerful of Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, using the poems of Nazi...

La Corne d'or is mostly concerned with religious ritual, examining the mosque (and former cathedral)...

Pehlivan focuses on a three-day wrestling competition, an ancient tradition that dates back over a t...

Short doc by Maurice Pialat. The first film in the series set at Turkey, Bosphore, is also the only ...

Could our mounting modern problems have ancient solutions? Travel to the depths of China to find out...
The port of Hamburg has experienced and survived many things: epidemics, fires and floods, wars and ...
The director accompanies the German women's national soccer team.