Elected in November 1932, as the economic crisis ravaged the United States, Franklin Delano Roosevelt immediately put all his campaign promises into action: it was time for the "New Deal". This bold plan, designed to turn around a nation on the brink of collapse, where unemployment was at an all-time high and the working poor were suffering from the precariousness of the job market, was intended to give hope to a country that had been battered before anything else. Once he came to power, the new president from the Democratic Party immediately passed some fifteen laws designed to revive the economy.

UNCOUNTED exposes how the election fraud that altered the outcome of the 2004 election led to even g...

A variety of scientific subjects, including the laboratory of a plastic surgeon in London, and his ...

In 1936, as Palestinian villages revolt against British colonial rule, Yusuf navigates between Jerus...

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extrem...

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achie...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphre...

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...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In the waning days of summer 1931, Honolulu's tropical tranquility was shattered when a young Navy w...

In 1933 Oregon, Samuel Murphy is torn from his daughter and sent to a brutal work camp. Warden Clanc...

In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a fam...

The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...

New York, 1937. A teenager hired to star in Orson Welles' production of Julius Caesar becomes attrac...

The film looks at men and women of color in the U.S. Merchant Marine from 1938-1975. Through chronic...

A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...

Every four years, the calm and peacefull Camocim de São Félix, a small town in Pernambuco (Brazil), ...

In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart hi...

A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope ...