Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his life: To unite the Pacific and Atlantic oceans through a Canal in the Isthmus of Panama – without knowing that this will cost him his reputation, thousands of innocent lives and the biggest financial scandal of all time, up to that point: the famous “Scandal of Panama”. Today, the French capital is known as “Paname”.

The story of the romance between the King of Siam (now Thailand) and the widowed British school teac...
This film features some of the most important living Postmodern practitioners, Charles Jencks, Rober...

In 19th-century Louisiana's Cajun country, Belizaire is the informal spokesman for his citizens, who...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

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

Berlin’s brutalist heritage is under fire. The city’s powerful Charité hospital wants to destroy a b...

Big Time gets up close with Danish architectural prodigy Bjarke Ingels over a period of six years wh...

Minimalist documentary by Rax Rinnekangas about the wooden cottage "La Cabanon" designed and built i...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

During the War of 1812 against Britain: General Andrew Jackson has only 1,200 men left to defend New...

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
After enduring 19 years in prison for stealing a loaf of bread, Jean Valjean emerges a hardened man....

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

The story is set at the beginning of the 20th century in Sicily. Salvatore, a very poor farmer, and ...

A film essay contrasting the modern metropolis with its "golden age" from 1830-1930, with the partic...

In 1959, a government employee named Richard Oyler, living in the tiny desert town of Lone Pine, Cal...

A British ex-convict in colonial Australia and his fragile wife, haunted by the past crime that bind...