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 inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

the Gardens at Hidcote Manor, Mottisfont Abbey, Sissinghurst Castle With a cameo appearance by Nige...

A documentary that resurrects the buried history of the outrageous, often brilliant women who founde...

During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

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

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of ...

1972 was a turning point in Ilie Nastase's career: he won his first US Open, while also reaching bot...

Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in...

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

When an Iranian-Canadian filmmaker hears the story of Master Ghadamyar- a Kurdish 120-year-old Tanbu...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

Set in the island Kinmen, often seen as the most dangerous military base because it’s geographically...

Leyla and her six-year-old daughter Nila live in the holy city of Mashhad in Iran. Nila is the resul...

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...

In the 1970s, old gangster moll Lou Rolfe is confronted with her involvement in the St. Valentine's ...