British cinema's original sex symbol, Diana Dors, left her £2 million fortune in various bank accounts, their details and locations revealed by an apparently uncrackable cipher. In this documentary, everyone from her son Jason Dors Lake to the legendary code-breakers of Bletchley Park try to solve the mystery.
The Kray twins' legend is as potent today as it has ever been but Cutting Edge suggests reality is f...

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

A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...

Stop-motion animation on the arranging of marriages in 1950/60s set in the Eastern-Polish borderland...
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-20...
Mento was the first national music of Jamaica and it begat Ska, Rocksteady, Reggae and the Dancehall...

The true-life story of a Harlem's notorious Nicky Barnes, a junkie turned multimillionaire drug-lord...

The career of French comic author René Goscinny was a living blend of cultures and an expression of ...

55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks

A box found in an abandoned storage unit unearths a time capsule of correspondences from a forgotten...

In 1952, TV Tupi, Brazil's first television channel, invited psychiatrist Júlio Gouveia and his wife...

A sociopolitical historical documentary-thriller about the international decline of communism and th...

The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate...

She appeared when Spain was waking up from a long post-war period and crying with melodramas starrin...

The movie recalls children who suffered mental and physical harm both during the last century, parti...

January 1953: On the eve of his death Stalin finds himself yet another imaginary enemy: Jewish docto...

A look at the life of Toty Rodríguez: An actress who made her career in France during the 60s, a wel...