Index of Films
     
    Battle of Algiers
A landmark of film history, Battle of Algiers was the first film to depict Algeria's revolt against French Colonialism in their struggle to gain independence. In the staged street riots, we follow Ali La Pointe and his supporters through the streets of Algiers as they struggle for the return of their country.
     
    Burning Questions
Three million Catholic Poles perished in WWII alongside three million Jewish Poles. The story of Polish Catholic suffering during the Holocaust has been largely overlooked in the United States. While never diminishing the Jewish experience, Burning Questions includes the often forgotten three million "others".
     
   

Eyes on the Prize
Through contemporary interviews and historical footage, much of it never before broadcast, Eyes on the Prize traces the civil rights movement from early acts of individual courage through the flowering of a mass movement and its eventual split into factions.

     
    Facing the Truth with Bill Moyers
Bill Moyers travels deep into the heart of South Africa, a land seeking to heal the wounds left by an amoral system of apartheid, and meets with the faces it has left behind as they reconcile their differences, forgive past wrongdoings, and move their nation into a new and brighter age.
     
    The Garden of the Finzi-Continis (Il Giardino Dei Finzi-Contini)
Beautifully photographed in dream-like pastels, the film tells the story of a rich, aristocratic family of Italian Jews who cloistered themselves on their large estate, ignoring the growing peril of Fascist anti-semitism.
     
    Night and Fog (Nuit et Brouillard)
Hailed as one of the most vivid depictions of the horrors of Nazi concentration camps and one of the world's greatest documentaries, Night and Fog combines color footage with black and white newsreels and stills to tell the story of the Holocaust and horror of man's brutal inhumanity.
     
    People's Century #120 "Skin Deep"
When peaceable protests failed in South Africa, where apartheid was the law, some turned to guerilla fighting. The black majority eventually won their freedom and the right to vote, holding first free democratic election in the late 1980s.
     
    Srebrenica: A Cry from the Grave
Events surrounding Europe's most horrifying war crimes since World War II are brought to light in this gripping documentary. Narrated by Bill Moyers, the program includes previously unreleased footage and first-person accounts of the 1995 massacre in Bosnia.
     
    The War Within: A Portrait of Virginia Woolf
This definitive one-hour documentary includes archival footage, paintings of the period, and haunting family photos of a Victorian childhood of both beauty and abuse. The film interweaves the personal story of Virginia Woolf's life and loves with the turbulent times she lived in.
     
    A Woman's Place
This one-hour documentary tells the intimate stories of women from three countries — rural South Africa, middle America, and Bombay, India — who are fighting to balance the scales of power so that "a man's world" is also a woman's place.
     
    Z
This gripping two-hour thriller chronicles the overthrow of the democratic government in Greece. When a liberal politician and leader of the opposition party is assassinated in an attack during a peace demonstration, the corrupt military and police try to cover up the murder—and their parts in it.