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.

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...

During the 13th century, a small village fights for freedom in the frontier landscape of the Carpath...

A story of love and honor that takes place during the mid-nineteenth century during revolutions, as ...

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

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

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.
The film is set in the 1840s. A charming village girl, Rozina, falls in love with a farmhand, Martin...

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

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

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

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

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

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

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

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

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

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...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...