The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an agronomist who made great promises and fake inventions. Each of them tried to solve the country's nutritional problem, but only one succeeded.

Contrasting radical mobs, anarchy, and 1960s counterculture with footage of American manufacturing a...

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

The 1977 discovery of RNA splicing by Dr. Phillip A. Sharp, Kentucky farm boy turned Nobel-prize win...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

A story about the clash of two cultures, two worlds - traditional Tajik culture and the new, invadin...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Warsaw's Central Railway Station. 'Someone has fallen asleep, someone's waiting for somebody else. M...

Danish social democratic propaganda film. During the Occupation, the young freedom fighter Søren had...

This remarkable documentary dedicates itself to an extraordinary chapter of the second World War – t...

Leading biblical scholars and religious experts discuss the implications of the Rapture, when prophe...

When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijack...
Made by the highly influential Russian cameraman Roman Karmen, this documentary vividly features Alb...
The story of Viktor Stratoberdha (1921-1991) mirrors many of Albania’s tragedies. Stradoberdha’s hum...

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainia...

Based on the book by Major Alexander de Seversky's about his theories of the practical uses of long ...

North Korean propaganda film about orchards that yield bigger crops after Kim Il-sung visits. The fi...

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

Wes Hurley's autobiographical tale of growing up gay in Soviet Union Russia, only to escape with his...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accura...