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.

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
Sisters! follows the work of Southall Black Sisters (SBS). It foregrounds the ongoing activism of th...

Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the resul...

"McCarthy" chronicles the rise and fall of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator who came to power ...

Described by Deadline Hollywood as the "tragic true story" of Chris Gueffroy, it follows one of the ...

In 1966 a group of determined young men defied the New Zealand government and launched a pirate radi...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

In 1971, a mysterious man named Dan Cooper boards a commercial 727 airliner, carrying with him nothi...

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while bat...

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Two brothers reflect on their chaotic journey to stardom, as part of the legendary punk rock bands T...

Miami, New Orleans and New York City completely under water it’s a very real possibility if sea leve...

On the 22nd of May 2021, around 100 Animal Rebels shut-down all four McDonald's distribution centers...
The final episode in our Mini-Docs series comes from musician and writer Jake Anderson, who explores...

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