On July 5th, 1922, Norwegian explorer, scientist and diplomat Fridtjof Nansen creates a passport with which, between 1922 and 1945, he managed to protect the fundamental human rights as citizens of the world of thousands of people, famous and anonymous, who became stateless due to the tragic events that devastated Europe in the first quarter of the 20th century.

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

Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefi...

March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian ...

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early sta...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts all...

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised cr...

Jack Diamond and his sickly brother arrive in prohibition New York as jewelry thieves. After a spell...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

Ailing from a sickness that threatens to silence her forever, Umm Kalthoum, the greatest Egyptian si...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusale...

Esther Johnson’s film uses local archive footage to convey the story of Sunderland's involvement in ...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: A bet is placed on the outcome of the Trial of the S...

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: IV. Congress of the Comintern / Congress of the Prof...
This lost WWI documentary appears to be about the German zeppelin attacks on Londonon September 2nd,...

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attem...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...