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Six million Jews died during World War II, both in the extermination camps and murdered by the mobile commandos of the Einsatzgruppen and police ...

A daring look at the underbelly of the global art market, LOOT exposes the criminal network that used child soldiers to violently raid Cambodian ...

During a trip to Sicily in 1920, Luigi Pirandello meets two gravediggers-turned-playwrights rehearsing a play with their amateur dramatics. ...

The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of ...

After months of exhausting trench warfare, most of Major Belyaev’s battalion was destroyed. The area is ruled by German aces snipers. Hope ...

Conceived as a kaleidoscopic mosaic, the film follows the imprint Franz Kafka left on the world from his birth in 19th-century Prague to his ...

Paris, France, February 2, 1922. The novel Ulysses, by Irish writer James Joyce (1882-1941), is published by US poet Sylvia Beach (1887-1962), ...

Follows the story of underground workers who risked their lives to send intelligence and defend the motherland, set after Japan’s attack on ...

Five military veterans, best friends since childhood, gather together in a Brooklyn brownstone several months after the end of World War II, and ...

The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the ’80s.

A young warrior decides to prove himself by harvesting the heads of ruthless opponents of his longhouse community.

When, in the late 1990s, Israeli student Teddy Katz exposed the massacre of Palestinian civilians by Israeli forces in the village of Tantura, in ...

When the calendars showed the 1950s, curiosity and interest in space had reached new heights, and many countries from Europe to Asia, led by the ...

A bizarre iron age grave has been uncovered in the United Kingdom, archaeologists expect that this site will help unlock the hidden story of the ...

On October 13, 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, chartered to take a rugby team to Chile, crashes into a glacier in the heart of the Andes.

Brash and opinionated, Christine Choy is a documentarian, cinematographer, professor, and quintessential New Yorker whose films and teaching have ...

A second trial begins in November 1975 against French left-wing revolutionary Pierre Goldman, accused of several armed robberies and the death of ...

When Ingeborg Bachmann and Max Frisch meet for the first time in Paris in the summer of 1958, they are already international celebrities of the ...

Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – historically documented – is causing bloodshed in the region. Bastiano ...

In World War II London, nine-year-old George is evacuated to the countryside by his mother, Rita, to escape the bombings. Defiant and determined ...

In 16th-century Zazzau, now Zaria, Nigeria, Amina must utilize her military skills and tactics to defend her family’s kingdom. Based on a ...

Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a ...

The Ark and the Darkness will be the most Biblically accurate, photo-realistic representation of Noah’s Flood ever released in theaters. ...

The life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.

From the songs of his mother’s heart to the whispers of a faithful God, David’s story begins in quiet devotion. When the giant Goliath rises to ...

32 years after the fall of communism and one hundred years after the founding of the Romanian Communist Party, three young independent filmmakers ...

Poet Layli Long Soldier crafts a searing portrait of her Oyate’s connection to the Black Hills, through first contact and broken treaties to the ...

Second Lieutenant and India’s youngest Param Vir Chakra recipient, Arun Khetarpal, gave his life fighting for his battalion and the country ...

During World War II, a Polish food server at a luxury German hotel tempts fate as he romances local women while hiding his Jewish identity.

Why are we still able, today, to view images that were captured over 125 years ago? As we enter the digital age, audiovisual heritage seems to be ...