We Weren't Given Anything for Free

Sight, like other senses, is as much a matter of personal experience as of the absence of possible comparisons. How can we know what others see and...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of stairs and stops growing. In 1939, World War II...

Filmmaker Alain Resnais documents the atrocities behind the walls of Hitler's concentration camps.

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal to answer charges of crimes against humanity....

This documentary, filmed after October 7, places recent events in context and retraces the extraordinary history of this region to shed light on the...

Martin Scorsese is the unchallenged master of the cinematic quest for Italian-American identity. He has etched the cinematic image of the Sicilian...

Mugabe rises from being a prisoner to power as a guerrilla fighter but gradually becomes the world's top tyrant. After four decades in power his...

In postwar Germany, an American psychiatrist must determine whether Nazi prisoners are fit to go on trial for war crimes, and finds himself in a...

The "Alaska at War" film project was an effort to document events of World War II in Alaska. It was funded by the Alaska Legislature through the...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by...

The people of Antiquity had little problem with nudity and would not find graphic depictions of sexual acts as morally suspect or obscene. But...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian...