Examines the early 1980s Hong Kong filmmaking community. Tony Rayns interviews some of the new generation of filmmakers and figures from the wider film culture.

Over the period of 25 years the director met General Võ Nguyên Giáp, a legendary hero of Vietnam’s i...

The city of Ordos, in the middle of China, was build for a million people yet remains completely emp...

Haunted by uncanny similarities between Nazi stage techniques and the showmanship employed by modern...

It’s the hit musical that changed Broadway forever and brought the genius of Lin Manuel Miranda to t...

To mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, Janina Ramirez tells the story of three books that...

‘Spitfire— Birth of a Legend‘ tells the story of the Spitfire from a radical design on the drawing boa...

Was the Christ Story stolen from other, older religions? Theologian Dr Robert Beckford investigates ...

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

1968, The Socialist Republic of Romania. Women catch up on the latest tendencies in beachwear, the y...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva,...

Jack L. Warner, Harry Warner, Albert Warner and Sam Warner were siblings who were born in Poland and...

Follows the waves of literary, political, and cultural history as charted by the The New York Review...

Tucumán, Argentina, 1965. Three years before George A. Romero's Night of the Living Dead was release...

A documentary about film producer Hal Roach.

Using historically-accurate, battle-filled re-enactments and interviews with expert historians and n...

Documentary on Ciby 2000, the French film production company founded by Francis Bouygues in 1990.

Featuring Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Diana Vreeland, La Belle Epoque evokes "the beautiful era" of 18...
Documentary film with play scenes about the rise and fall of the short-lived Bavarian Soviet Republi...