Handbook of Movie Theaters' History

Likely in June 1897, a group of people are standing along the platform of a railway station in La Ciotat, waiting for a train. One is seen coming, at...

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Cuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were...

Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military...

Various experiences of childhood are seen in several sequences that take place in the small town of Thiers, France. Vignettes include a boy's...

A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.

A documentary of 24th April, 1970 assassination of Chiang Ching-kuo.

The film explores the destruction of a unique train station in Zurich and the construction of the new prison and police centre in its place. From the...

Directors Jonathan Alter, John Block and Steve McCarthy bring New York columnists Jimmy Breslin and Pete Hamill’s courageous writing to life,...

WWII from Space delivers World War II in a way you've never experienced it before. This HISTORY special uses an all-seeing CGI eye that offers a...

Artist and life-long nerd Johannes Grenzfurthner is taking us on a personal road trip from the West Coast to the East Coast of the USA, to introduce...

How do you put a life into 500 words? Ask the staff obituary writers at the New York Times. OBIT is a first-ever glimpse into the daily rituals, joys...

They are the first and the last, those who imagine stories and give voice to the characters who live them. However, they never speak. But now, they...

Through the eyes of the Narrator and ancient Philosophers of the time, we are taken on a dramatic journey through history; recounting the incredible...

The 70th anniversary of the “Fotogramas” magazine comes in the shape of a sentimental voyage through the history of Spanish cinema thanks...

Four lives that could not be more different and a single passion that unites them: the unconditional love for their cinemas, somewhere at the end of...

Six young women programmed the world's first all-electronic programmable computer, ENIAC, as part of a secret US WWII project. They changed the...

A film about the Maroons—freed or escaped slaves that created their own communities during slavery. Both stories are examples of Gerima’s...

In Uganda, AIDS-infected mothers have begun writing what they call Memory Books for their children. Aware of the illness, it is a way for the family...