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.

Pyatigorsk. The foot of Mount Mashuk. Morning of July 15, 1841. Two days ago – friends, overnight – ...
HISTORY brings you an all-encompassing documentary event cantered around the 25th anniversary of the...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

A distinguished military leader whose reign was touched by great scandal, shocking betrayals and rou...

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

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

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

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

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

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

Edmond Dantés's life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes are shattered when his best friend, F...

Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. Aft...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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...

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

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