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.

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

Starting in 1881 this film shows the personal battle between Lenin's Ulyanov family and the royal Ro...

The Feminist Library: A Short Film was made in support of the Save the Feminist Library Campaign, do...

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

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

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

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

Aaron Eliyahu, a Jewish man, travels to a small village called Mala, Kerala in search of his Jewish ...

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

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

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

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...

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

Using home videos recorded by her voice coach, Diana takes us through the story of her life.

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...