Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

More than fifty years after the release of the film “The Battle of Algiers” in theaters in June 1966...

Every American who has listened to the radio knows Guthrie's "This Land Is Your Land." The music of ...

Focuses on sexual equality in the Black community.

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mappin...
I started from the assumption that the discourse about the hospital could be the objective pretext f...

'L'ultimo pugno di terra' (The Last Fistful of Land) is a 1966 documentary film directed by Fiorenzo...

Twins Ronnie and Reggie Kray are raised in east London, under the influence of their hateful but dot...

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

Illustrated with archival photographs, animations and live action, this film explores the history an...

The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Mar...

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

A group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a t...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Based on true events, the film presents nearly all stages of national hero Sparapet Vazgen Sargsyan'...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

In 2017, podcaster and comedian Ben Kissel ran for Brooklyn Borough President to stand up for his ne...

France, 1974. The erotic film Emmanuelle, directed by Just Jaeckin, breaks all records for cinema at...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...