A brief history of the emergence and artistic innovations of tango in 19th-century Argentina and Europe. The film offers a mosaic of tango melodies, art works, dance performances, historical footage, photographs of Buenos Aires at the turn of the 20th century, and texts by Celedonio Flores and Enrique Santos Discépolo.
Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-yea...
An account of Orson Welles' 1938 radio drama broadcast that inadvertently started a mass panic.
As an omnibus of short films, Art Through Our Eyes is inspired by the art collection found at the Na...
A 1970s American elementary school program encouraging students to figure out for themselves the uni...
No clothes. No apologies. This film marks artist Spencer Tunick's third 'Naked' documentary which fe...
Shot in Munich just a few weeks after it was taken by the American troops on April 30, 1945.
The Making of feature for the George Lucas movie 'THX 1138'.
A film essay investigating the question of what “the West” means beyond the cardinal direction: a mo...
A movie follows a regular working day of a woman who works in a factory. She wakes up at 3am and goe...
Hormones – without them, nothing would work in our body: the messenger substances control our physic...
Orson Welles acted in Brazilian culture and music by deeply researching Brazil's historical geology,...
This short film reveals the inspiration, motivation and political challenges at San Francisco City H...
Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilis...
Buster Brown creater R.F. Outcault sketches his creation. Part of the Buster Brown series for Ediso...
Documentary profiling young Roxy Music fans. They talk about the band and the music, are seen out an...
Joan Denise Moriarty doggedly followed her dream of bringing ballet to every corner of Ireland. A pi...
Some months after the fall of the Berlin wall, during the time of federal elections in Germany in 19...
A look at the state of the global environment including visionary and practical solutions for restor...
"…elegant yet rustic in its simplicity of execution; tugged gently toward different sides of the set...