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.

In 1971, graduate student Gloria Orenstein received a call from Surrealist artist Leonora Carrington...

The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devo...

Portentously portrays the evacuation of Portland, Oregon, when threatened by a nuclear attack on its...

Amongst the 2011 London riots, a former boxer needs must choose between his past or a new future.

A young Donald Trump, eager to make his name as a hungry scion of a wealthy family in 1970s New York...

Bern, 1979: a tower block called Tscharnergut. Together with a few friends (among them famous Swiss ...

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?

An unparalleled portrait of Arthur Miller (1915-2005), a major writer who left an indelible mark on ...

A famed criminologist reexamines the evidence in this powerful interview with murderer Bert Spencer,...

Director Eugenia Gutu offers a feminist critique of gender (in)equality under socialism in this docu...

The film is a Slovak version of The Thin Blue Line, recounting the unsolved disappearance and murder...

A disturbed, but highly intelligent man is sent to a criminally insane hospital to serve time and re...

A documentary on women musicians of the 1990s from the indie rock music genre, grunge and riot grrrl...

For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their d...

Pussy Riot make a comeback after a long absence to stand with Ukraine. Their story and their struggl...

Germans colonized the land of Namibia, in southern Africa, during a brief period of time, from 1840 ...

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the governmen...

In 1945, as Stalin sets his hands over Poland, famous painter Wladislaw Strzeminski refuses to compr...

An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have prog...