The film focuses on Ernesto Rossi (1897 – 1967), who was imprisoned by the fascist regime between 1930 and 1943 for his political ideas. Exiled on the island of Ventotene, he co-authored the Ventotene manifesto.

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

A 17th-century nun becomes entangled in a forbidden lesbian affair with a novice. But it is Benedett...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

In November 1936, a few months since the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the S...

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

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

Today, you're more likely to go to prison in the United States than anywhere else in the world. So i...

Looking at whether the history of early human evolution should be rewritten. For decades, most exper...
The film follows Vincent Schiavelli as he returns to Polizzi Generosa, the very town in Sicily his g...

An early Patwardhan documentary completed in 1978, Prisoners of Conscience focuses on the state of e...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

Celebrated author and Nation magazine sports editor Dave Zirin tackles the myth that the NFL was som...

An attempt to create a bridge between the different political positions that coexist, sometimes viol...