The 1939 dramatic short "Angel of Mercy," about Red Cross founder Clara Barton, is reedited to relate the story to America's involvement in World War II. Edited from Angel of Mercy (1939)

Working men and women leave through the main gate of the Lumière factory in Lyon, France. Filmed on ...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

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

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...
Short news featurette produced by Pathe-RKO after the Russians launched the first orbiting satellite...

A portrait of the British writer Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who, although he had radical instincts, h...

Two women living alone are visited by a young strange man whose identity and intentions they begin t...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his da...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...
Set in Remies, France in 1941 during World War II, a Jewish man tries to escape Nazi persecution and...

To write In Cold Blood (1966), a nonfiction novel that revolutionized world literature, Truman Capot...

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.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...