Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx formed one of the most famous duos in world history. In contrast to Marx, however, Engels seems to have fallen into oblivion today. Unjustly so. Moving archive images, documentary footage and graphic novels lead us back to the time of Friedrich Engels, who shaped the Communist movement like no other.

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

The story of the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962—the nuclear standoff with the USSR sparked by the disc...

The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the p...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to...

Kingdom of Hawaii, 1866. Fearful that leprosy would spread throughout the archipelago, the king bani...

The "David and Goliath" legend is presented as credibly as possible, while David's later disastrous ...

16th century ruler King Philip II of Spain maneuvers within a court of deceit and betrayal

Summer 1936 - The Berlin Olympics, organized by the Nazi regime on the eve of World War II, acted as...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa...

In China, there exists an astonishing place. A burial ground to rival Egypt’s Valley of the Kings, w...

An in-depth look at the lost burial site of Emperor Jing Di's hidden army. Lost for over 2,000 years...

The continued Westward journey of settlers Missie and Willie Lahaye. Their roots now firmly planted ...

A short documentary about the making of "The Great Dictator."

The last shots had been fired in the First World War — but peace had yet to be made. Inspired by Mar...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

It's a condition known as "hypertrichosis" or "Ambras Syndrome," but in the 1500s it would transform...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...