This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later life.

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

Widowed Welsh mother Anna Leonowens becomes a governess and English tutor to the wives and many chil...

Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a s...

In the late 1960s, the Beach Boys' Brian Wilson stops touring, produces "Pet Sounds" and begins to l...

Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlappi...

Newly elected President Nelson Mandela knows his nation remains racially and economically divided in...

This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bri...

Down-on-his-luck veteran Tsugumo Hanshirō enters the courtyard of the prosperous House of Iyi. Unemp...

Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...

This MGM John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series short tells the story of how a Mauser pistol used on t...

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation ef...

A historical perspective to understand Neoliberalism and to understand why this ideology today so pr...

Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had...

Paris, 1930. Luis Buñuel is penniless after the scandal surrounding the release of his last movie. S...

Shows how important luck can be in a person's life.

The true story of Saartje Baartman, a black South African worker who moves to London with her master...

This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of John Peter Zenger, who in Colonial New Y...

Spain, 1932. Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel travels to the region of Las Hurdes, in Extremadura, wher...

A young Anatolian Greek, entrusted with his family's fortune, loses it en route to Istanbul and drea...