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 dramatisation of the workers' protests in June 1976 in Radom, seen from the perspective of the loc...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

Looking for Angelina is based on one of the most important murder trials in Canada. Angelina Napolit...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about o...

A group of soldiers are sentenced for the murders of key political figures in the night of October 1...

The Black Panther star uncovers the astounding true story of the Agoji, Benin’s female army – or as ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

What if the events in a key era in our history were actually completely different than what our hist...