Fourty years ago, in May 1981, with François Mitterrand's election, some people were letting themselves dream about a better life while others were predicting the coming of soviet tanks upon the Champs-Élysées. If we gladly remember the turning point of austerity in 83, there were also the wage rises, the fifth week of paid leave, the abolition of death penalty, the decriminalisation of homosexuality, or the advent of independent radio stations. Rare archives and accounts by those who were at the heart of this story give an overview of it and shed light on lesser-known aspects.

Peter Wilcox, as skipper of the 'Rainbow Warrior', a Greenpeace ship, docks in Auckland, July 1985,...

Fall Of The Republic documents how an offshore corporate cartel is bankrupting the US economy by des...
When 39 people are killed prior to the European Cup at the Brussels Heysel stadium in 1985, the mayo...

After 6 years of brutal murders, the West Yorkshire Police fear that they may have already interview...

Detective Chief Superintendent Maurice Jobson is forced to remember the very similar disappearance o...

England, 11th century. William the Conqueror (ca. 1027-1087) wins the Battle of Hastings (1066), cha...

An underprivileged, gifted young black man from Newark reaches Yale University, only for shadows and...

In Alex Jones' 11th feature documentary, made in 2004, Alex documents the major candidates in the st...

Following the 1974 French presidential campaign with Valéry Giscard d’Estaing.

A video essay from Mark Rappaport about movies in movies, and how the screen watches us just as we w...

Television Without Frontiers centers around a 1982 project titled "Eurikon", originally an attempt t...

British documentarian Nick Broomfield creates a follow-up piece to his 1992 documentary of the seria...

The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which...

Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...

DFW Punk, covering the Dallas/Ft. Worth punk/new wave scene. If you thought Texas in the late ’70s w...

Biographical account of America's President for the latter part of WWII. Shows Truman's rise from sm...

Gary Hart, former Senator of Colorado, becomes the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomi...

A film about convicted drug smuggler Myuran Sukumaran, who became an accomplished artist before he w...

Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former ...