An intimate and political history of the French working class from the early 1950s to the present day.

In the days of King Henry IV, stalwart young Myles and his sister Meg have been raised as peasants, ...

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he gr...

Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement ...

Bobby Griffith was his mother's favorite son, the perfect all-American boy growing up under deeply r...

Taking over Leeds United, Brian Clough's abrasive approach and his clear dislike of the players' dir...

A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—onl...

During a dark time in the Heian period, when evil forces threaten the kingdom, the emperor relies on...

The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: h...

Rogue Trader tells the true story of Nick Leeson, an employee of Barings Bank who--after a successfu...

A series of images, music and sounds which transport through Mexico's history, without any narrative...

Evakko is a portrayal of Soviet-Finnish winter war of 1939/40 and the associated evacuations in diff...

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

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

Hamburg, Germany, 1939. Getting a passage aboard the passenger liner St. Louis seems to be the last ...

In 1336, Pedro, heir to the Portuguese crown, marries Constanza Manuel de Villena, a Castilian noble...

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord...