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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her love...

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

In the 1940s, a small band of underground paramilitaries attempt to fight back against the Soviet-ba...

Baltimore City officials asked drug kingpin Melvin Williams to stop the riots happened following Mar...

With the Doomsday Clock the closest it's ever been to midnight, Jane Corbin investigates the prolife...

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

Danusia and her daughter Basia live far away from the modern world, in tune with the rhythm and laws...

Composed from the conversations that the director holds with people passing by in the street under h...

In 1972, a seemingly typical shoestring budget pornographic film was made in a Florida hotel: "Deep ...

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

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

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

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