Marxist Poetry: The Making of The Battle of Algiers

On July 14, 1789, a mob of angry Parisians stormed the Bastille and seized the King's military stores. A decade of idealism, war, murder, and carnage...

In the middle of the French Alps, some adventurers balance themselves on slacklines high above the ground.

Forty years after the abolition of the death penalty in France, voted on September 18, 1981, the guillotine remains in the collective imagination as t...

The unusual talents of Johnny Price, a minor league baseball pitcher and trick artist, are showcased in this Pete Smith Specialty. Among other talents...

Widerstandsmomente (Moments of Resistance) carries voices, writings, and objects from the anti-Nazi resistance into the present. Politically engaged w...

Filmed over nearly five years in twenty-five countries on five continents, and shot on seventy-millimetre film, Samsara transports us to the varied wo...

A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.

The exciting story of Dr. Manette, who escapes the horrors of the infamous Bastille prison in Paris. The action switches between London and Paris on t...

A man, alone in a bathroom, gets ready to go out. He's stopped in his tracks when he trips on his bathroom scale. Desperate to rid his body's imperfec...

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who de...

A lower-level fisherman is waiting for the birth of his wife's child after both of them have been through prolonged anxiety. They believe the myths ab...

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the effete aristocrat, but in reality is part of an un...

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.