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...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

1971, Odesa Film Studio. The KGB studio curator orders a re-edit of just finished movie about the ev...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

When a plane crash claims the lives of members of the Marshall University football team and some of ...

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

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...

Sudan, East Africa, 1980. A team of Israeli Mossad agents plans to rescue and transfer thousands of ...
The funeral procession of suffragette Emily Davison - fatally injured at the Epsom Derby - passes th...

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

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

Provocative, feminist critique of man’s technological progress.

In the Arab world, women are fighting a two-front war against repressive internal constraints and in...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...

The Rock Touring Around Great Britain is a performance piece by Chinese artist He Yunchang that invo...

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