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.

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey throu...

John Pilger unearths the hidden agenda behind the NHS crisis.

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

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

The history of Bruguera, the most important comic publisher in Spain between the 1940s and the 1980s...

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

When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...

Romance brings two warring families together in this historical drama. As citizens fight for indepen...

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...

As Russian writer Boris Pasternak (1890-1960) thinks it is impossible that his novel Doctor Zhivago ...

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...

Kim Kardashian is the embodiment of our times. She's a total social figure. To analyze her is to tal...

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...

In 1984, eleven miners entrenched themselves underground to protest for better working conditions in...

A Texas congressman sets a series of events in motion when he conspires with a CIA operative to aid ...

Documentary about Moa Martinson.

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...