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.

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...

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

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

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

This documentary goes back to the turn of the century to show how women shaped the nation’s history.

Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose te...

Early 80's, Sara is a good-family girl, she has never been with a man, does not drinks, does not tak...

Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically...

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Ital...

In the 1960s, the suburbs were meant to be modern havens for newcomers from rural France, Portugal, ...

Lithuania, 1941, during World War II. Hundreds of thousands of texts on Jewish culture, stolen by th...

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

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

Despite its Afro-American origins, the history of disco music, the soundtrack of the seventies, woul...

The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World ...

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

An American-born Jewish adolescent, Hannah Stern, is uninterested in the culture, faith and customs ...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...