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?
A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...
The plot of the film unfolds in the ancient monastery of Dokhiar on the west coast of Mount Athos, o...
A captain in the Czar's army encounters danger and romance while carrying a secret message across 19...
Stefano is a filmmaker commissioned to make a movie about the poet Rosanna Bertoja. The two discover...
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...
An intimate portrayal of the everyday lives of Carthusian monks of the Grande Chartreuse, high in th...
In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds c...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
The Athos peninsula in Greece is one of Europe's last secrets. Over 2000 monks live on Athos - cut o...
In this documentary, Alex trusts his twin, Marcus, to tell him about his past after he loses his mem...
The story of Hadji Murad, a 19th-century Chechen chieftain who led his warriors in a fight against t...
In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...
Portrait of Augustinas Baltrušaitis, film and theatre director, as well as actor, who fell into obsc...
An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...
An examination that goes beyond the celebrity-driven headlines and dives into the methods used by Ri...
White people don't understand that there are two laws - white people have different laws from Aborig...
An exploration of the making of b-movie sci-fi cult classic "The Creeping Terror" and its con-man di...
A ghost and a French marquis wander through the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, encountering scenes ...
Thirty years after the Chernobyl disaster, which occurred on the night of April 26, 1986, its causes...