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

With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff br...

In County Durham, England, 1984, a talented young dancer, Billy Elliot, stumbles out of the boxing r...
This short shows how the city of Reading, Pennsylvania would implement civil defense procedures to h...

At the beginning of winter, a filmmaker retires for six months to a hermit's cabin in the middle of ...

Colorado Springs, late 1970s. Ron Stallworth, an African American police officer, and Flip Zimmerman...

In an audacious campaign to demand better borrowing, Michael Sheen buys £1m of debt from hundreds of...

Shere Hite’s 1976 bestselling book, The Hite Report, liberated the female orgasm by revealing the mo...

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

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more...

On September 1st, 1939, Nazi Germany invades Poland, unleashing World War II. On September 17th, the...

Gorbachev believed that it was impossible to achieve a successful economy until the tensions of the ...

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...
Made at the height of 'cold war' paranoia, this drama-documentary shows the work of the UK Warning a...

Polish film and music icon Kalina Jedrusik, a scandalous free-spirited sex symbol, fights for her in...

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

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

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

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

A strange story from Somerset, England about a filmmaking farmer and the inspiring legacy of his lon...