"What could be more unsettling than a man close to death whose profound arrogance drives him relentlessly to hang onto both his power and his writing, to the bitter end?" In the twilight of his second seven-year term, François Mitterrand was alone. Ravaged by illness and abandoned by a large majority of the Socialist Party, who would not forgive him for the disastrous outcome of the March 1993 elections, the Head of State was preparing to tackle a second round of cohabitation with the right wing. However a series of unexpected tragedies and revelations would arise, casting a shadow over the end of his reign…

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

Amid the civil-military dictatorship implanted with the 1964 coup, Sergio Muniz had the idea of maki...

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

Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of t...

Is the city of Zurich suffering from ‘density stress’? What is it like to live in mega cities such a...

In this film, Paul Tomkowicz, Polish-born Canadian, talks about his job and his life in Canada. He c...

Film student Laïs Decaster trains her camera on her close-knit group of friends to capture daily lif...

The 10-year struggle of the families who lost their children from the Sewol Ferry Disaster.

When the world was on fire, they called Hans Blix. This is how the Swedish diplomat is introduced in...

These 2 one-hour specials will take a look back at Ronald Reagan from his ups and downs as a Hollywo...

Through the Fondren Fellows program, the Rice Media Center Archive Project has spent the past few mo...

For three years after being forced from office, Nixon remained silent. But in summer 1977, the steel...

The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of t...

The individual journeys of the four members of the band, as they move through the music scene of the...

The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later...

Cruelty, psychological and sexual violence, humiliations: reality television seems to have gone mad....

In 150 years, twice marked by total destruction —a terrible earthquake in 1923 and incendiary bombin...

Meet the real-life airmen who inspired Masters of the Air as they share the harrowing and transforma...

True story of a couple charged with manslaughter when their rejection of modern medicine in favor of...

The New Tango (El Nuevo Tango) was not shown in Argentina for a long time as it deals with the ascen...