New York, May 16, 1888. Visionary Serbian inventor Nikola Tesla is about to introduce an innovative AC asynchronous motor. Before the demonstration, wealthy businessman George Westinghouse meets Tesla privately to get him to sell him his patent and go into business with him. Tesla declines the offer but during the demonstration something happens that will change the world forever.
Europe, 1940. For thousands of Jews, a Japanese diplomat and his wife defy Tokyo and the Nazis, and ...
An essay film on the editing of erotic movies.
A Chinese Canadian son sets out to make a film on his mother, who was once known as the first ever C...
At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the Eas...
A seventeen year old girl who has lived all her life on an island off the coast of Ireland is faced ...
The hope of a young historian to corroborate the existence of Pascual Vázquez, a supposed general of...
After Phyllis discovers that her daughter Cecilia can read, she’s torn between abiding to her slave ...
1645. Guadeloupe. Ibátali, a Kalinago native and wife of a French colonist, leads Olaudah, an escape...
Isaac Newton - brilliant rational mathematician or master of the occult? This innovative biography r...
On October 25, 1946... in a small crowded room at Cambridge University, two of the world’s greatest ...
The thousand-year-old tradition of pottery in the Indian subcontinent is now under threat. With the ...
After numerous military operations, Major Müller can't find a way back into civilian life. Following...
This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the vi...
A son's letter to Santa for Christmas turns his father's evening into a thriller he did not ask for.
A young filmmaker accidentally claps her idol’s mystical clapperboard, throwing the two on a frantic...
Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilis...
Spain, 1953. Pedro Zaragoza, mayor of the city of Benidorm, in the province of Alicante, by the Medi...
The history of the infamous serial killer known as the ‘zodiac’ in the late 1960s. It takes you thro...