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.

The life story of Aleksis Kivi, author of the first Finnish novel in Finnish language and (posthumou...

In 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London...

An intimate portrait of the woman whose groundbreaking books revolutionized our relationship to the ...
Gone are the days when Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte won battles, received ovations, and felt like a vi...

A close look at Alexander the Great - from Macedonia to India. Alexander the Great has always enjoye...

Based on the 19th century battle when 12,000 Afghans attacked a British Indian Contingent, also comp...

Soma, an immigrant from a defeated country, lives as a fortuneteller in Japan. She is saved from cor...

The documentary "Caixa D'água: Qui-lombo is this?" It reports, through testimonies from former resid...

Two young teenagers are forced to take control of their own destiny amid the chaos of a pivotal batt...

Traces the rise of the company Suzuki Shoten from the 1880's to 1919. After the death of her husband...

They called themselves the United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing, but because of ...
In mid-19th-century Costa Rica, President Juan Rafael Mora vows to defend his nation from American f...

The newly-named emperor Maximilian and his wife Carlota arrive in Mexico to face popular sentiment f...

In 19th century France, an escaped convict seeks redemption while caring for a young woman whose mot...

The film recreates the final events leading to Italian unification in September 1870.

When American newspaperman and adventurer Henry M. Stanley comes back from the western Indian wars, ...

The story of a Japanese diplomat, sometimes called the Schindler of Japan, and his life lading up to...