Ilze Burkovska, a little girl who is obsessed with stories of World War II and will be a filmmaker in a distant future, lives in Latvia under the totalitarian boot of the Soviets and the ominous shadow of the many menaces and horrors of the Cold War.

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

In the small town of Rockwell, Maine in October 1957, a giant metal machine befriends a nine-year-ol...

A portrait of union leader James R. Hoffa, as seen through the eyes of his friend, Bobby Ciaro. The ...

The story of the only three minutes of footage —a home movie shot by David Kurtz in 1938— showing im...

Brazilian singer Maria Bethania has a 40-year singing career. A documentary shows her concerts and f...

From May 10, 1940, France is living one of the worst tragedies of it history. In a few weeks, the co...

A Dutch documentary about the history of the anarchist punk band Crass. The film features archival f...

Using original footage and interviews, this documentary tells the nail-biting story of Apollo 13 and...

Five American soldiers fighting in Europe during World War II struggle to return to Allied territory...

Jamie Graham, a privileged English boy, is living in Shanghai when the Japanese invade and force all...

Recorded during World War II, this rare color film traces an RAF Bomber Command night attack on Berl...

When an impulsive boy named Kenai is magically transformed into a bear, he must literally walk in an...

The film looks at the men, their living conditions, the food they eat and their bamboo shower. It sh...

Ming Wang is an impoverished Chinese prodigy who flees Communist China to become a pioneering eye su...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...
In 1944, at the tail end of the war—in which Finland aligned with Germany for a time in a bid to fig...

Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measur...