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.

In 1943, Max Fronenberg spent one year digging a secret underground tunnel to escape out of a prison...

Polish film and music icon Kalina Jedrusik, a scandalous free-spirited sex symbol, fights for her in...

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

The film follows five people who lost their sight in armed conflicts, gathering fragments of their p...
Documentary about the nurses' strike in Finland on autumn 2007.

The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s...

The Victorian era is often cited for its lack of sexuality, but as this documentary reveals, the per...

In 1987, five young men, using brutally honest rhymes and hardcore beats, put their frustration and ...

What is possible when we have guaranteed money to meet our basic needs? No requirements. No stipulat...

A student is held up in the library while a riot rages outside. As SDS protesters head to burn the l...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

2019 marks the 30th year since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the end of the Cold War. Rich Hall ex...

The AfD, founded in 2013, is a right-wing party that has become increasingly radicalized in recent y...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

St. Petersburg, Russia, December 30th, 1916. Grigori Rasputin is assassinated. The story of the humb...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

Iran, January 16th, 1979. Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi flees after being overthrown. Ayatollah Khomein...