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A documentary about the history and the urban development of the city of Erlangen in northern Bavaria, Germany.

A retired teacher investigates the shadowy history of his rural Missouri community, including the origins of a looming structure known as the...

The Girl from Ipanema charts the progress of bossa nova (new wave), and the Brazilian singer Astrud Gilberto's musical development and rise to fame....

In 1928, Lady Heath became the first person to fly solo from Cape Town to London. Eighty-five years later, Tracey Curtis-Taylor set out in a vintage...

Dr Janina Ramirez travels across glaciers and through the lava fields of Iceland to find out about one of the most compelling of the great Viking...

Seekers of Oblivion explores the exciting life and adventures of Isabelle Eberhardt. Born in Geneva, Switzerland in 1877, Isabelle left Europe for...

Doctors of the Dark Side is the first feature length documentary about the pivotal role of physicians and psychologists in detainee torture. The...

In his film "Far From Heaven", Todd Haynes refers very respectfully to Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows". Fassbinder was also strongly...

The colorful stories of Irish-American immigrants and their descendants who lived the history and exemplify the repeated cycle of the outsider...

Serge Toubiana, director of the Cinémathèque française, sat down with director Claude Lanzmann in his office in Paris in January...