On January 20, 1981, 52 members of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran were released after 444 days of captivity. Told by those who lived through it, a crisis that traumatized America and upset the political balance in the Middle East.

How were the giant stone heads of Rapa Nui – also known as Easter Island – carved and raised, and wh...

“Unhappy with the limited structure of league newsreels, Nykino, a splinter filmmaking collective, p...

From the acclaimed director of American Movie, the documentary follows former Los Angeles police off...

The story of two soldier-cameramen, Sgt Mike Lewis and Sgt Bill Lawrie, who witnessed the liberation...

Bombs tear through Bombay in 1993, wreaking havoc and polarising the citizens. With perpetrators at ...

Rüdiger was a child, Aki two months old and Kurt, the deputy of the pedophile leader of the sect. In...

In 1899, Lord Kang must decide which of his three sons will take over his family's Chinese banking e...

Anders Østergaard’s film is an investigative look at the year the Berlin Wall fell, documenting the ...

This fiction-documentary hybrid uses a sensational real-life event—the arrest of a young man on char...

A middle-aged Tehranian man, Mr. Badii is intent on killing himself and seeks someone to bury him af...

A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but a...


Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

This documentary follows the 2002 mayoral campaign in Newark, New Jersey, in which a City Councilman...

This faux cautionary documentary features film clips and often humorous softcore reenactments of sev...

Archival footage, animation and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who wer...

Using the 'real life' documentary style, this drama observes two years in the life of the Byrne fami...

Salhia Brakhlia has filmed the set and behind the scenes of Franceinfo's breakfast show during a yea...

The story, told by the survivors, of a group of young men, members of a Uruguayan rugby team, who ma...