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.

When German police viciously quell a protest against the shah of Iran, popular journalist Ulrike Mei...

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...
In this guided tour of a unique Persian carpet, a close-up of the delicate "spine" of a tree branche...
An interview with actress Me Me Lai on her work in the three Italian cannibal-themed movies "The Man...

Guest speakers from "Women In Motion" Conference, Vancouver, B.C. 1975.

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

This fascinating political look at a little-known chapter in women's history tells the story of "Jan...

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...

AMERICAN COUP tells the story of the first coup ever carried out by the CIA - Iran, 1953. Explores t...

German TV film, also shown on Spanish TV in 1976, this is a film all about TD which includes informa...

Belgrade in the 1990s seen through the eyes of Goran Čavajda 'Čavke', the late drummer of Serbian ro...

Kim Kardashian is the embodiment of our times. She's a total social figure. To analyze her is to tal...

In 1970s California, a serial killer dumps young boys' bodies along the freeways. An L.A. street rep...

The life and rather obscure hardships of a Slovenian feminist author and human rights activist Angel...

Maria Callas, the world's greatest opera singer, lives the last days of her life in 1970s Paris, as ...

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

In the 1940s, a small band of underground paramilitaries attempt to fight back against the Soviet-ba...
A focus on one of Turkey’s most bloody political massacres. In 1977, two men in a hotel room over a ...

After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return t...