Stalin

Mussolini seized power in Italy in 1922, after his March on Rome. He would hold it in his grasp until his death in 1945, establishing a dictatorship...

What it felt like to live through the collapse of communism and democracy. A series of films by Adam Curtis.

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving...

The untold true story behind the Cold War race to put man into space.

The whole story of Urho Kekkonen, the most important statesman during Finland's independence.

Louis Malle called his gorgeous and groundbreaking Phantom India the most personal film of his career. And this extraordinary journey to India,...

Three years in the making, this comprehensive study of the Soviet dictator blends documentary footage and interviews with experts and surviving...

Four episodes, each featuring a "person of interest" — Roger Milliss, Michael Hyde, Gary Foley and Frank Hardy — exploring their...

The rise of Stalin, from his early beginning as a bankrobber to the cold-blooded leader of the Soviet Union.

This 9-episodes documentary series extensively examines the history of Poland in the 20th Century, telling the story through archival films,...

Learn how six dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, shaped the 20th century. How did they seize and lose power? What forces were against them?...

Recounts the tumultuous history of Cuba, a nation of foreign conquest, freedom fighters and Cold War political machinations.