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.
During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...
New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...
A Polish spy who works for the British during the Second World War. After a betrayal, she is comprom...
When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of ...
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...
The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he i...
The story of the Bugattis of Milan and Molsheim, the eccentric family behind the brand: Carlo, the p...
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
A grand and patriotic tale of Poland's struggle for freedom just before Napoleon's war with Russia. ...
A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenpl...
'Der Baader Meinhof Komplex' depicts the political turmoil in the period from 1967 to the bloody "De...
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...
In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His politica...
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos f...
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...
Explore the rise and fall of one of the biggest corporate flameouts and venture capitalist bubbles i...
The adventurous life of Natacha Rambova (1897-1966), an American artist, born Winifred Kimball Shaug...