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...
The film is set in the 1840s. A charming village girl, Rozina, falls in love with a farmhand, Martin...

Documentary about Ilyich Ramírez Sánchez, aka "Carlos the Jackal", international terrorist.

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

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...

James May presents a celebration of the toys which have survived across the decades, including Mecca...

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Inde...

The real-life story of Gisella Perl, a Jewish Hungarian doctor imprisoned in the notorious Auschwitz...

REVOLUTION OS tells the inside story of the hackers who rebelled against the proprietary software mo...

Salem, Massachusetts. A small town—with no clear governing body—became embroiled in a scandal that f...
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

The story of the Avro Arrow, the world's fastest fighter plane built in 1950's Canada, and how the p...

In 1890s India, an arrogant British commander challenges the harshly taxed residents of Champaner to...

The civil war in China has ruined many lives including General Pang's. A wounded General Pang is sav...

Fanny Price is sent to live with her wealthy relatives, the Bertrams, where she is treated poorly by...

Nineteen year old pioneer woman Marty has recently married. She goes west with her husband Clem, hop...