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

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

The story of Salvador Puig Antich, one of the last political prisoners to be executed under Franco's...

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

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...

From double BAFTA nominated Writer and Director John Walsh. Monarch is part fact, part fiction and u...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the w...

In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleo...

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

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

A fascinating compilation tracing the development of British trains throughout the 20th century. Thi...

The Prince of Guastalla falls in love with the young citizen Emilia Galotti, who is soon to marry Co...

After getting threatened by Kelly's friends and family, Constable Fitzpatrick places the blame on Ne...

It's 1974. Muhammad Ali is 32 and thought by many to be past his prime. George Foreman is ten years ...

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...

Prague in the 1870s. Work in Smolík's sulphur factory is hard and dangerous to health. The poorly pa...

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