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.

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...
In 1970, ‘The Wall of Early Morning Light’ was an unthinkable climb. For larger-than-life climbing l...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...

From the sweaty basement bars of 70s New York to the glittering peak of the global charts, how disco...

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

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

Island of Java, 1942, during World War II. British Major Jack Celliers arrives at a Japanese prison ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

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

An absurd combination of circumstances turns two idle young men into fugitives from the law.

The greatness, fall and renaissance of Hammer, the flagship company of British popular cinema, mainl...

Interviews and performance footage are used to provide an overview of the women's music scene.

After the World War I, Mussolini's perspective on life is severely altered; once a willful socialist...
Sisters! follows the work of Southall Black Sisters (SBS). It foregrounds the ongoing activism of th...

Guy Debord's analysis of a consumer society.

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...

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

The story of the 2019 Hong Kong protests, told through a series of demonstrations by local protestor...