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.
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...
Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer journeys to the Himalayas without his family to head an expedit...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
A shock wave started as Stalin's daughter Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva fled to the West. During her...
A gripping documentary about the courage and determination of a young English stockbroker who saved ...
A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reig...
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.
In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...
The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...
A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Documentary about the life and career of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot.
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the m...
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the m...
Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the...
Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck...
When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they a...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...