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

It was perhaps the most spectacular flourishing of imagination and achievement in recorded history. ...

Discover the untold stories of D-Day from the men, women and children who lived through German occup...

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

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...

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

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

Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a...