A cinematic, character-driven insight to what it meant to produce and to own a car in communist times: the Socialist propaganda dreams and the hard reality of living that dream. The freedom that these slow and clumsy vehicles were giving to their owners; the cars as an instrument in the Cold War battle; legends and homemade tune-ups as an attempt to stand at least a little bit off the crowd.

How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...

A shocking political exposé, and an intimate ethnographic portrait of Pacific Islanders struggling f...

Both a political narrative and a psychological reflection, this documentary explores the personal jo...

PUMP is a documentary that tells the story of America’s addiction to oil, from its corporate conspir...

President Mikhail Gorbachev recounts the end of the Cold War and the reduction of nuclear arms.

When a renegade Russian general sends a nuclear bomb hurtling toward the Middle East aboard a hijack...

A nuclear warhead launched by Soviet insurgents protesting the waning Cold War destroys the Ukrainia...

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

U.S. nuclear tests in space, and the development of the military intercontinental ballistic missile ...

The filmmaker's mother describes stories of his lustful youth over the phone, causing them to reflec...

The world knows Paul Newman as an Academy Award winning actor with a fifty-plus year career as one o...

Two journalists born in the mid '80s decide to take a look back at how their country changed in the ...

Ben Stewart, the bright young musician and philosopher who brought us the sleeper hit "Esoteric Agen...

A retrospective special commemorating the 20th anniversary of the sitcom The Mary Tyler Moore Show.

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) was the starting point for the slow but ...

A landmark four disc Box Set - Unearthed from Moscow's legendary Soyuzmultfilm Studios, the 41 films...