Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the mo...

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of ...

A fine documentary that details the sordid life of 1970s pornographic actor John Holmes, from the st...

Finnish filmmaker and artist Sami van Ingen is a great-grandson of documentary pioneer Robert Flaher...

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

Pole, who are you? This film collage that combines archival and contemporary materials, documentary ...

Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...

This award-winning, thrilling story is about a group of discarded kids who revolutionized skateboard...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

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

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to su...
In 1970, ‘The Wall of Early Morning Light’ was an unthinkable climb. For larger-than-life climbing l...

The 1920s saw a revolution in technology, the advent of the recording industry, that created the fir...
The final episode in our Mini-Docs series comes from musician and writer Jake Anderson, who explores...

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen...

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...