From 1853, Japan opens up to the West. Numerous works of art and woodcuts find their way to Europe. The Impressionists and later the European artistic avant-garde succumb to this one passion: Japonism. 150 years after the beginning of the Meiji period in 1868, the film traces the connections between Japan and the Western world.

After five years studying in Paris, Arash has not adjusted to life there and has decided to return t...

The Real Story of Fake Democracy. Filmed over three years in five countries, FREEDOM FOR THE WOLF i...

This documentary visits the towns and villages of the Alsace region of France at Christmastime. See ...

Every fall, The Center for Cartoon Studies invites 20 aspiring cartoonists to White River Junction, ...

Japan blossomed into its Renaissance at approximately the same time as Europe. Unlike the West, it f...

This documentary follows the French soccer team on their way to victory in the 1998 World Cup in Fra...

The inner world of the great painter Max Ernst is the subject of this film. One of the principal fou...

Actual footage by the United States Signal Corps of the landing and attack on Arawe Beach, Cape Glou...

Other - An in-depth look at the world of Japanese street racing.

How the Japanese process American pop culture and make it their own -- a mind-bending odyssey throug...

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became the third President of the Fifth Republic. An alternati...

Matsuko Deluxe explores the seemingly familiar yet overlooked facets of Japanese culture through rea...