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.

In Cold War-era Romania, two Securitate officers intercept a letter from Richard Nixon to Nicolae Ce...

Far from the dictates of current female beauty, MBMR focuses on these other bodies, those who take u...

A rare 1979 BBC Arena documentary on the Albion Band, Ashley Hutchings and the development of Englis...

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at...

Cold War tensions climb to a fever pitch when a U.S. bomber is accidentally ordered to drop a nuclea...

Harvey Milk was an outspoken human rights activist and one of the first openly gay U.S. politicians ...

The story is about a doll named Amo Pumble who teaches children how to live in society by reading a ...

As a result of the Holocaust and later, AIDS, the male homosexual community has sustained bitter los...

Gdańsk, Poland, September 1980. Lech Wałęsa and other Lenin shipyard workers found Solidarność (Soli...

The dramatised story of the Irish civil rights protest march on January 30 1972 which ended in a mas...

A captivating and personal detective story that uncovers the truth behind the childhood of Michaël P...

Juno Award-winning musician Kinnie Starr is on a quest to find out why only 5% of music producers ar...

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

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

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

A street in downtown Warsaw transforms into a kaleidoscopic portrait of Polish society. Behind the v...

Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose te...

Early 80's, Sara is a good-family girl, she has never been with a man, does not drinks, does not tak...

Pouvoir Oublier is a political documentary first constructed from the words of the speakers whose li...

The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Ital...