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.
Any given Sunday of 1974 in Spain, soccer games in several stadiums, the sarcastic voice of commenta...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
This film, directed by Dominique GAUTIER, takes the viewer on a worldwide excursion into the history...
Actor Rawiri Paratene was 16 years old when he joined Māori activist group Ngā Tamatoa (Young Warrio...
Documentary reports on the annual icing of the Oder in the 160-kilometer border area between the GDR...
An exploration of the seminal and transformative 18 months that one of music’s most famous couples —...
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...
A panorama of Brazilian popular music from the 60s and 70s through the musical group Novos Baianos. ...
An unconventional portrait of painter Frida Kahlo and photographer Tina Modotti. Simple in style but...
This is Poe and Král's first effort, shot on small-gauge stock, before their more well-known endeavo...
The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...
In 1973 Alister Barry joined the crew of a protest boat (The Fri) to Mururoa Atoll, where the French...
"Race d’Ep!" (which literally translates to "Breed of Faggots") was made by the “father of queer the...
A documentary exploring the experience of going to war with a Military Working Dog, trained to find ...
A Nepali mountaineer risks everything on a record-breaking Mount Everest climb to secure a brighter ...
A director of a television series on the history of cinema, who has been grappling with the screenpl...
Documentary portrait of Karel Köcher, supposedly the most important communist agent to infiltrate th...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
The true story of the seven weeks that changed China forever. On June 4, 1989, pro-democracy demonst...