The epic story of the Russian Civil War (1918-21): the White Terror, the counterrevolutionary uprisings, the guerrilla war, the Kolchak front, the Wrangel front and the Kronstadt rebellion. Chaos and violence, devastation and death.
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
Film historians, and survivors from the nearly 30-year struggle to bring sound to motion pictures ta...
The extraordinary life and career of the Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov, a brilliant and c...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
This expansive Greek drama follows a troupe of theater actors as they perform around their country d...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely p...
A cast of unknown performers are used in this drama about child soldiers fighting a war in an unname...
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a...
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Events that took place in the capital of the Tajik SSR, the city of Dushanbe in 1929.
Two westerners, a priest and a teacher find themselves in the middle of the Rwandan genocide and fac...
When Russia's first nuclear submarine malfunctions on its maiden voyage, the crew must race to save ...
Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presi...
Accio and Manrico are siblings from a working-class family in 1960s Italy: older Manrico is handsome...
Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...
An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...
Kieslowski’s later film Dworzec (Station, 1980) portrays the atmosphere at Central Station in Warsaw...
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...