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.
For three weeks in September 2008, one person was charged with preventing the collapse of the global...
True story of the undersized Depression-era racehorse whose victories lifted not only the spirits of...
In 1931, three Aboriginal girls escape after being plucked from their homes to be trained as domesti...
The triumphant underdog story of the University of Washington men's rowing team, who stunned the wor...
A look at the life of legendary American pilot Amelia Earhart, who disappeared while flying over the...
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in...
Two brothers who could not have been more different. The eldest, Hermann Göring (1893-1946), was a p...
The true story of Harvey Milk, the first openly gay man ever elected to public office. In San Franci...
An adult Ralphie Parker narrates several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel t...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
The Spanish journalist Manuel Chaves Nogales (1897-1944) was always there where the news broke out: ...
Vienna, 1937, on the eve of the annexation of Austria into Nazi Germany. The young and inexperienced...
How can the masses be controlled? Apparently, the American publicist Edward L. Bernays (1891-1995), ...
A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
A shy and quiet World War II evacuee is housed by a disgruntled old man, and they soon develop a clo...
From an ominous Lecturer, a small 1930s middle American community learns of the Harper Affair, in wh...
A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 ...
Rakel is a strict Christian believer living in the far north of 1930s Sweden. When her husband forms...
The story of the rape of Nanking, one of the most tragic events in history. In 1937, the invading Ja...
This film is a powerful reminder of the importance of human freedom and the need to protect our righ...