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.

Filmmakers and collectors lift the curtain on their manic media obsession that is not only a huge pa...

How the Soviet Union was able to copy the Boeing B-29 Superfortress bomber, and the influence of the...

The little-known story of Ukrainian children torn from their homes in the crush between the Nazi and...

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound...

Tensions between the USSR and the United States were high in 1959, with the seemingly constant threa...

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

A film about the dramatic and extraordinary fate of the lonely man who confronted the meat grinder o...

The ruin pub phenomenon in Budapest jolted the city to life like an explosion in the early 2000s. Th...

Alan Yentob explores the work of Martin Parr, considered to be the most influential photographer of ...

13 August 1961: the GDR closes the sector borders in Berlin. The city is divided overnight. Escape t...

In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

A research-based essay film, but also a very personal perspective on the history of socialist Yugosl...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

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

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...