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.

Fragmentary perspectives on Human Rights and transgender (trans*) People in Turkey. What remains at...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey, in which a City Councilman...

Two families attempt a daredevil plan to escape the GDR with a homemade hot air balloon, but it cras...

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

A portrait of the masterful author whose novels were adapted into the classics 'The Birds,' 'Jamaica...

Short documentary about artist Keith Haring, detailing his involvement in the New York City graffiti...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...

"In this half-hour documentary, Producer Sandra King provides an intimate portrait of a public pheno...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, ...

A funny walk through the life story of Billy Wilder (1906-2002), a cinematic genius; a portrait of a...

During the anti-communist uprisings of the late 1950s, a writer of comedic poems against socialism w...

At New Mexico's Empire Zinc mine, Mexican-American workers protest the unsafe work conditions and un...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...

This educational documentary describes the political, social, and religious conditions of sixteenth ...