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)

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.

Writer, journalist, explorer, filmmaker, communist militant, freedom fighter. Truths and lies. A plo...

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

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

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

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...

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...

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

The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...

Hitler's biography told like never before. Besides brief historical localizations by a narrator, onl...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...

Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. Television producer by day, CI...

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.