Ivan, first tsar of Russia. History will remember him as "the Terrible. Russian people love him for centuries. He liberates Russia from foreign oppressors, demands absolute obedience and loyalty in order to radically modernise Russia? Ivan IV, Grand Duke of Moscow, first Tsar of Russia by the grace of God. A madman? A sadist?

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland, July 9, 2016. The surprising discovery of a canister —cont...

Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 ...

A history of the French Revolution beginning from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Gene...

The era of palace coups in Russia ended with the coronation of a prominent historical figure: Cather...

The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against t...

Nicholas Vreeland walked away from a worldly life of privilege to become a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Gr...

The protagonists of this docudrama are old farmers who migrated to Banat after the First World War, ...

In his tower-block apartment in New Lodge, Joe reenacts memories from his childhood amidst the “Trou...

An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...

A young woman of the Tarahumara, well-known for their extraordinary long distance running abilities,...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

The figure of Emperor Peter the Great, as well as the era of his formation and reign, still excites ...

Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memo...