Emmy Awards nominee for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Research: Multi-faceted portrait of the man who succeeded Lenin as the head of the Soviet Union. With a captivating blend of period documents, newly-released information, newsreel and archival footage and interviews with experts, the program examines his rise to power, deconstructs the cult of personality that helped him maintain an iron grip over his vast empire, and analyzes the policies he introduced, including the deadly expansion of the notorious gulags where he banished so many of his countrymen to certain death.

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

Fred Beckey is the legendary American "Dirtbag" mountaineer whose name is spoken in hushed tones aro...

The long awaited documentary about Sepultura's incredible journey from Brazil to the world.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...

Once upon a time, a poor woodcutter and his wife lived in a great forest. Cold, hunger, poverty, and...

Standout tells the powerful story of Ben Kjar, born with Crouzon Syndrome, a rare craniofacial disor...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

An in-depth profile of the life and career of Willy T. Ribbs - the controversial Black driver who sh...

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...

From 1940, around 25,000 Dutch people served in the Waffen-SS. In spite of their large number, they ...

"Long is the Road" - The first feature film to represent the Holocaust from a Jewish perspective. Sh...

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

1943. They have never stepped foot on French soil but because France was at war, Said, Abdelkader, M...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...