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.

Johanna Dohnal, whose political career spans three decades, was one of the very first explicitly fem...

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

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

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

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

Australian filmmaker Sophia Turkiewicz investigates why her Polish mother abandoned her and uncovers...

Down the road from Woodstock in the early 1970s, a revolution blossomed in a ramshackle summer camp ...

A group of young women from Ouagadougou study at a girl school to become auto mechanics. The classma...

Paris, Rue Beautreillis, July 3, 1971. The corpse of rock star Jim Morrison is found in a bathtub, i...
The documentary takes the viewer to the Polish countryside of the mid-1970s. Andrzej, Leszek, Eugeni...

A documentary tale about sport and politics under martial law. All of Poland saw the great goals of ...

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

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

A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films...

Wolves divide and fascinate us. 150 years after they were driven to extinction in Central Europe, th...

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

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

Documentary consisting of archival footage that depicts the evolving conditions of Italian women dur...

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