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.

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

Prince Ehtejab, one of the last remaining heirs of the Qajar royal family, is suffering from tubercu...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

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...

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husba...

Film sponsored by Western Electric (AT&T's equipment manufacturing division), the builder of the Uni...

Gina, a modern business woman in her late forties, has a lover named Adrian, a journalist, who she s...

Throughout Hong Kong’s history, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to su...

The rise and fall of salsa singer, Héctor Lavoe (1946-1993), as told from the perspective of his wif...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...

“It ain’t easy…being green” is the favorite expression of Stormé DeLarverie, a woman whose life flou...

September 1st, 1939. Nazi Germany invades Poland. The campaign is fast, cruel and ruthless. In these...

Chronicles the rise and fall of 1970s New York City nightclub Plato's Retreat.

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

This film shows how far we have come since the cold-war days of the 50s and 60s. Back then the Russi...

The true story of the inseparable Von Erich brothers, who made history in the intensely competitive ...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives...

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