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.
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
Thundering across the sky on elegant white wings, the Concorde was an instant legend. But behind the...
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...
An exhaustive explanation of how the military occupation of an invaded territory occurs and its cons...
This History Channel documentary traces the Ottoman Empire from its beginnings in the 14th century t...
"Long Dark Night" follows the life of the fictional character Iva Kolar: his experiences as a Croati...
In the 1980s U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, Texas socialite Joanne Herring and CIA agent Gust Avrakotos f...
In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police in...
Jan Schmidt and Pavel Juráček turn their attention to the problem of Czechoslovakia's unloved cars i...
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh...
The Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, the May events in France, the a...
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
Set in 18th-century Eastern Europe, the film concerns the star-crossed romance between a Polish mili...
As the Space Race ensues, seven pilots set off on a path to become the first American astronauts to ...
The free, almost naive view from the perspective of a child puts the "68ers" in a new, illuminating ...
Based on true events, an American submarine collides into a Soviet sub of the coast of America and a...
Historic Russian battles to repel invaders serve as prelude to the story of events that redrew the m...