A film documenting work shortages during the Depression of the 1930s and the attempts to deal with the unemployed, in particular young men. The film discusses the establishment of relief camps and projects, where men were paid twenty cents per day; the founding of organizations such as the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), Workers' Unity League, and Relief Camp Workers' Union; general unionization and protest of the unemployed, including the On To Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, sit-in strike from May to June 1938 at the Vancouver Main Post Office, Vancouver Art Gallery and Hotel Georgia, and the resulting Bloody Sunday of June 19.
In Warsaw in 1980, the Communist Party sends disgruntled radio reporter Winkel to Gdańsk to dig up d...
A working class teenager comes of age in 1910s rural Sweden, moving through a series of jobs and rom...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
In the fall of 1962, a dramatic series of events made Civil Rights history and changed a way of life...
Shut Up and Sing is a documentary about the country band from Texas called the Dixie Chicks and how ...
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Spain, April 14, 1931. The Second Republic is born. From the beginning, the writer Miguel de Unamuno...
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms...
In 1935, German scientists dug for bones; in 1943, they murdered to get them. How the German scienti...
A forgotten history of Northern Ireland is unveiled through a journey into Ulster Television’s archi...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
Jimmy Gralton returns from New York and reopens his beloved community hall, only to meet opposition ...
New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...
Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German pastor, theologian, spy, anti-Nazi dissident, and key founding memb...
A documentary that traces the origins of the political power structure that rules our nation and the...