How we built the Moscow metro

An exploration —manipulated and staged— of life in Las Hurdes, in the province of Cáceres, in Extremadura, Spain, as it was in...

The documentary tells two very different human fates in the 1920s Soviet Union. Nikolai Vavilov was a botanical genius, Trofim Lyssenko was an...

This documentary focuses on 1939, considered to be Hollywood's greatest year, with film clips and insight into what made the year so special.

This documentary by ABC News commemorates the 30th anniversary of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. It provides a behind-the-scenes look at how close...

Early documentary about the Moscow metro: the early project, the development and the people working on it.

The hippie movement that captivated hundreds of thousands of young people in the West had a profound impact on the other side of the Iron Curtain....

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Documentary examining Stalin's Gulag. Between the October Revolution and Stalin's death in 1953, millions of people died in the camps. The film...

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1919, when the Republic of Weimar is born, to 1933, when the Nazis come...

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

Film cameras cruise the Soviet Union's mighty Volga River, providing a view of the Russian people along its 2300-mile length, including looks at the...

The life and career of the hailed Hollywood movie star and underappreciated genius inventor, Hedy Lamarr.