In February, 1945, Primo Levi (1919-1987) and other Auschwitz survivors set off for home. The journey took more then eight months. Sixty years later, a film crew retraces Levi's steps. Levi's words, mainly from "The Truce" (1963), tell us what he experienced. In turn, we see Poland's hollow post-war factories, nationalism in the Ukraine, Soviet-style Communism in Belarus, the abandoned town of Prypiat (Chernobyl), poverty and emigration from Moldavia, Italian factories in Romania, and on across Hungary and Slovakia to Munich where Levi's rage found no listeners. Then home to Turin. An aged Mario Rigoni Stern remembers his friend. What has changed? Some issues of the war remain unsettled.

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

Tucson, Arizona, September 1996. At the request of his son Martin, George Goldsmith tells him of his...

Efforts of the United Mine Workers, led by Mother Jones, to organize coal miners in southern West Vi...

An account of the life and work of the charismatic and seductive Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, from...
Taylor Alison Swift has evolved into one of the most popular names in modern music. Her strong voice...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...

From Star Trek to The Sound of Music, award-winning director Robert Wise was dedicated, inventive, a...

There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led ...

A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC dram...

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

The story of Sri Prem Baba, spiritual master and humanitarian leader with followers around the world...

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...

A biopic of the legendary Benjamin Disraeli, his rise from a foppish young novelist to the Prime Min...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...

Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought...