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.

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

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...

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

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...
Music documentary about Billo Frómeta by director Rafael Marziano Tinoco from Venezuela.

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

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

No matter what your age you'll love watching this impressive and comprehensive story of the developm...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

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

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

This MGM Passing Parade series short presents how separate events led to the creation of three provi...

5000 years ago the ancient Elamites established a glorious civilization that lasted about three mill...

It is the year 2546. Corporations rule the world, and an agent is on a secret mission to explore the...

Before ending World War II, Nazi Germany, realizing it was going to lose the war, planned an escape ...