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.
Based on the life of Rosa Bonheur, a trailblazing feminist and artist who rose to fame in 19th centu...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

A young Bulgarian girl digs into her grandfather's turbulent life in an attempt to unravel the past ...

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

Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, ...

Buddhist monks open up about the joys and challenges of living out the precepts of the Buddha as a f...
Kathy's family left on a Saturday morning in 1965. The rumble of bulldozers echoed through the neigh...

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

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...