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.

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...

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

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

Klaus Kinski has perhaps the most ferocious reputation of all screen actors: his volatility was docu...

A documentary about the Swedish rapper and artist Silvana Imam.

Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no...

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

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

The chronicle of the mind-blowing journey that was Hollywood during the seventies; the true and grip...

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

In the aftermath of the Cold War, Russian and American intelligence agencies, once enemies, joined f...

A documentary account by award-winning filmmaker John Ferry of the events that led up to the 1969 Na...

A documentary that proposes a conversation about the way children are praised. While girls are often...

The creation of Iannis Xenakis’ « Persephassa » at the Shiraz-Persepolis Art Festival. There are on...

2011 saw the largest wave of disorder in the UK since the 1980s. This revelatory film hears from the...

The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent...