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.

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

Norman Mailer and a panel of feminists — Jacqueline Ceballos, Germaine Greer, Jill Johnston, and Dia...

Two actresses take us through a series of 'raps' and sketches about what it means to be beautiful an...

A street in downtown Warsaw transforms into a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society. Behind the v...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

A colourful trip back in time, as Debbie McGee hosts a 1970s-style dinner party.

Baltimore City officials asked drug kingpin Melvin Williams to stop the riots happened following Mar...

When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her love...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

Turkey's history has been shaped by two major political figures: Mustafa Kemal (1881-1934), known as...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...

Bahram Beyzai's poetic imagining of the circumstances that led to the death of Yazdgerd III, the las...

In August 1962, director Leslie Woodhead made a two-minute film in Liverpool's Cavern Club with a ra...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

"England 79" - 17 scenes from Great Britain the winter of discontent, 1979.

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

France is at the heart of Madonna's life. She is inspired by French culture and its values and has s...

Documentary about Moa Martinson.

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

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