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.

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainia...

This documentary visits the towns and villages of the Alsace region of France at Christmastime. See ...

When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijack...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

Montreal, spring 1966. Jean Corbo, 16 years old, born to a Quebec mother and an Italian father, is t...

A widower maintains a memorial room filled with his late wife's belongings. When fire destroys it, h...

Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as i...

This documentary follows seven wine-making families in the Burgundy region of France, delving into t...

In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festiv...

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

This documentary film includes never-before-seen footage and exclusive interviews to tell the story ...

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

In Aukland Harbour, New Zealand, on July 10th 1985, French navy combat frogmen placed two mines agai...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Ma...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

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