An epic exploration of the Czechoslovak New Wave cinema of the 1960s and 70s, structured around a series of conversations with one of its most acclaimed exponents - Closely Observed Trains director Jiří Menzel.
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of D-Day, this special presents the key events of the Allied inv...
Fifty years ago, on Sunday, 2 March 1969, Concorde flew for the first time. Starting from this inaug...
Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the...
In 1943, in a circus tent in Burbank, CA, a bunch of revolutionary thinkers first gathered together ...
From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when Ameri...
What would your family reminiscences about dad sound like if he had been an early supporter of Hitle...
One man's search for the prolific funk legend, Sly Stone.
Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck...
An archival documentary about the U.S. military’s response to the political and racial injustices of...
Paul Robeson was a celebrated African-American Actor, Athlete, Singer, Writer, and Civil Rights Acti...
No musical group has had as profound an impact on pop music as The Beatles. Tony Palmer's groundbrea...
A roller-coaster ride through the history of American exploitation films, ranging from Roger Corman'...
President Kennedy's birthday celebration was held at the third Madison Square Garden on May 19, 1962...
The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist an...
Americans refused to be drafted from the concentration camp at Heart Mountain, Wyoming. Ready to fig...
A personal essay which analyses and compares images of the political upheavals of the 1960s. From th...
In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His politica...
An insider's account of Jack Warner, a founding father of the American film industry. This feature l...
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...
In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...