Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Solidarity), the first independent trade union behind the Iron Curtain. The long and hard battle to bring down communist dictatorship has begun.

Marijuana is the most controversial drug of the 20th Century. Smoked by generations to little discer...

On January 6, 2021, Americans witnessed an attack on the U.S. Capitol without precedent in our histo...


The film shines a light onto federal chancellor Angela Merkel and her now ending 16-year-long tenure...

Thanks to new excavations in Mauritius and Madagascar, as well as archival and museum research in Fr...

A documentary on the expletive's origin, why it offends some people so deeply, and what can be gaine...

The history of the Warsaw Ghetto (1940-43) as seen from both sides of the wall, its legacy and its m...
The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The n...

North Sudan, summer 1923. King Alfonso XIII of Spain captures an enormous African elephant, an appar...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the ...

Today London, tomorrow Paris, the day after New York – the life of the "jetsetter." Long before the ...

On the eve of the publication of a biography of Claude Jutra, one of the most famous and celebrated ...

According to the official history of Afghanistan, ruthless destruction has always prevailed over art...

The Kush Empire was an ancient superpower that dominated the Nile Valley and rivaled the Egyptians, ...

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to su...

The story of journalist Edward R. Murrow's stand against Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist wi...

The story about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during co...