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

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

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

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

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

South Africa, 1978. Tim Jenkin and Stephen Lee, two white political activists from the African Natio...

Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the...

At the dawn of the Space Race, seven test pilots set out to become the first American astronauts to ...

In war-torn colonial America, in the midst of a bloody battle between British, the French and Native...

A German submarine hunts allied ships during the Second World War, but it soon becomes the hunted. T...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

In 1561, Mary Stuart, widow of the King of France, returns to Scotland, reclaims her rightful throne...

In 1896, three survivors of a whaling ship-wreck in the Canadian Arctic are saved and adopted by an ...

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witness...

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...

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...

A Muslim ambassador exiled from his homeland joins a group of Vikings, initially offended by their b...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...

True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...