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.

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

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in...
The 5th anniversary of the inner-German wall to West Germany and West Berlin is on the agenda. The n...

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

For 30 years, Scott LoBaido has been a voice, fighting with you and for you on so many issues, promo...

Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of...

The story of Italian cinema under Fascism, a sophisticated film industry built around the founding o...


In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scar...

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

The SS chief Heinrich Himmler wanted to exchange Jews against so-called German Reich abroad, against...

A short documentary following the last 5 hours of a 59-years-old man, Ahmed before becoming homeless...

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

In the Briançonnais mountains, in France, men and women on the roads of exile find the courage to cr...

Here and Elsewhere takes its name from the contrasting footage it shows of the fedayeen and of a Fre...

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

"The Farewell Affair" is one of the greatest espionage stories of the Cold War that will result in t...

The story of the documentary The Sorrow and the Pity (1971), directed by Marcel Ophüls, which caused...

When Astrid Lindgren was very young something happened that affected her profoundly, and this combin...