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.
After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man....

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

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

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

A politically naive Viennese butcher manages to survive the Nazi occupation of Austria and the secon...
A foosball movie video documentary about the players, promoters, history and passion of American foo...

Robert van Gulik (1910-1967) is one of the world’s most read authors from the Netherlands. This dipl...

2010 documentary film on the Armenian Genocide by the Young Turk government of the Ottoman Empire du...
The film Crustaceans treats itself like an impressionist picture or a Japanese Haiku. Crustaceans is...

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

In the late 19th Century, Mary Breydon, a widow, and Peggy Breydon, her daughter manage a stagecoach...

Mother India is home to many castes, tribes and religions and one common factor that brings this div...

A Documentary film exploring the history and evolution of vinyl records. Featuring Interviews with t...

The story of Tasmanian-born actor Errol Flynn whose short & flamboyant life, full of scandals, adven...

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-S...
The film is set in the 1840s. A charming village girl, Rozina, falls in love with a farmhand, Martin...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...