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.
A portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959), a genius of modern architecture, whose life passed bet...
Mountaineering legend Denis Urubko shares his thoughts on what mountaineering is (or isn't). "It's i...
In a time of political and social unrest in 19th century Korea, uncouth, self-taught painter Jang Se...
As the only legitimate heir of England's King William, teenage Victoria gets caught up in the politi...
In this biopic, Christian Rahadi – aka Chrisye – overcomes early failures, family strife and anxiety...
Good Grief is a short stop motion animated documentary that explores the lessons we learn from deali...
An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his...
Released from prison, former oil oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky expounds on his newfound freedom and ...
A dog trains for the battlefield and becomes a crucial part of the United States military. This 1945...
This short film, produced at the end of WWII, warns that although Adolf Hitler is dead, his ideas li...
Oscar winning postwar propaganda film in support of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Adm...
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...
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
After May 1968, they experimented with communities, squats or free love, with the hope of real chang...
The aging king of Israel, Ahab, falls under the influence of a young and beautiful but scheming Paga...