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...

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

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

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

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

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

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

The long-suppressed story of 12,000 Japanese Americans who dared to resist the U.S. government's pro...

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

In 208 A.D., in the final days of the Han Dynasty, shrewd Prime Minster Cao convinced the fickle Emp...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. ...

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

A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal de...

At the peak of Perestroika, in 1987, in the village of Gorki, where Lenin spent his last years, afte...

More than 2.000 years ago, Narbonne in today's Département Aude was the capital of a huge Roman prov...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...

An excellent comprehensive look at all the music that came out of Cincinnati, Ohio. Cincinnati "Roc...