The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the perspective of the filmmaker’s window, and with testimony from prisoners awaiting deportation, the film probes how we deal with the extinction of history and its replacement with total security.
In 1968, the fury and violence of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago propelled us toward ...
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of H. Spencer Lewis's initiation into the Rosicrucian Trad...
Unlike what people may think, Krakatoa was not the biggest volcanic eruption in history. More than t...
Archival footage of an American Nazi rally that attracted 20,000 people at Madison Square Garden in ...
British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the seria...
In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years ...
A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the or...
Zende follows the 82-year-old retired assistant commissioner of police in Mumbai, Madhukar Zende. Th...
It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...
The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...
2024, Los Angeles, CA, the city of angels. Plunging us into the moment, this is a visceral cinematic...
Examine the history of bluegrass music, from its origins to its eventual worldwide popularity, and h...
China is the only civilization that continues to hold sway throughout its entire territory as define...
For decades, the United States has been fixated on incarceration, building prisons and locking up mo...
Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...
Do humans have the right to judge and kill other humans? This program includes a history of capital ...
Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...