Over the past hundred years, dramatic social upheavals have taken place in the name of Karl Marx's theories. In Western Europe, the student movement of 1968 and the Eurocommunists were inspired. And in recent times, the thinker has experienced a renaissance.
October 2014. Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, is the scene of an unarmed uprising that ous...
The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...
Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...
Freddy Maemura Hurtado, a second-generation Japanese-Bolivian, heads to Cuba to study medicine. He m...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
A beautiful temptress re-kindles an old romance while trying to escape her past during a tension-pac...
Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society wh...
A documentary about Caroll Spinney who has been Sesame Street's Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch since ...
Poland, 1970. When popular protests erupt in the streets due to rising prices, the communist governm...
Ana Deborah Mola and Belkis Lescaille were among the first young teachers who started pilot programs...
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escap...
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced ...
After the Cuban Revolution, Che is at the height of his fame and power. Then he disappears, re-emerg...
The Argentine, begins as Che and a band of Cuban exiles (led by Fidel Castro) reach the Cuban shore ...
In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950's, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub own...
In 1979, a revolution in Iran. In 1980, a revolution in Poland. The fall of the Shah, the “King of K...
In pre-unified China, the King of Qin sends his concubine to a rival kingdom to produce an assassin ...
A documentary that explores the myth behind the truth. Different people around the globe reinterpret...
In China more people are on death row than the rest of the world combined. The children of the convi...