May, 1980. Man-seob is a taxi driver in Seoul who lives from hand to mouth, raising his young daughter alone. One day, he hears that there is a...

In 1987 Korea, under an oppressive military regime, a college student gets killed during a police interrogation involving torture. Government of...

In the early 1980s, South Korea is torn by student protests over the lack of representation in the government. Song Woo-Seok is a successful...

On 9 April 1940, German soldiers arrive in the city of Oslo. The King of Norway faces a choice that will change his country forever. The King's...

Primary is a documentary film about the primary elections between John F. Kennedy and Hubert Humphrey in 1960. Primary is the first documentary to...

Since the late 18th century American legal decision that the business corporation organizational model is legally a person, it has become a dominant...

In 1988, Chilean military dictator Augusto Pinochet, due to international pressure, is forced to call a plebiscite on his presidency. The country...

Through interviews filmed over four years, Noam Chomsky unpacks the principles that have brought us to the crossroads of historically unprecedented...

What would American democracy look like in the hands of teenage girls? In this documentary, young female leaders from wildly different backgrounds in...

The film splits itself between two timelines. In 2006, Ada is basing her thesis on a massacre that occurred twenty years prior in a village called...

Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme was openly shot to death on a February evening 1986 on the streets of Stockholm. In one night, the country of...

A cautionary tale for these times of democracy in crisis—the personal and political fuse to explore one of the most dramatic periods in...

Examines the implications of Christian Nationalism, how it distorts not only our constitutional republic, but Christianity itself, and asks the...

Masha Drokova is a rising star in Russia's popular nationalistic youth movement, Nashi. A smart, ambitious teenager who – literally –...

Since its adoption in June 1955 by the Congress movement, the Freedom Charter has been the key political document that acted as a beacon and source...

In suburban Buenos Aires, thirty unemployed ceramics workers walk into their idle factory, roll out sleeping mats and refuse to leave. All they want...

40-year old political leader Birgitte Nyborg secures her party a landslide victory through her idealism and huge effort, then faces the biggest...

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

Empire is a unique programme that reports on and debates global powers on behalf of an international citizen. It does so in a way whereby it...