The Jazz Ambassadors

A documentary on the late American entertainer Dean Reed, who became a huge star in East Germany after settling there in 1973.

While gun violence was on the decline in most major US cities, why did it continue to increase in Chicago's segregated communities? What is known...

The wish was father to the thought: instead of asking Mr. Reagan conventionally worded questions about his candidacy, as he had done Messrs. A...

The moment where American sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos raised their gloved hands in defiance on the podium at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics...

Emmett Till was brutally killed in the summer of 1955. At his funeral, his mother forced the world to reckon with the brutality of American racism. ...

The black power salute by Tommie Smith and John Carlos at the 1968 Mexico Olympics was an iconic moment in the US civil rights struggle. Far less...

Examines Civil Rights-era America through the prism of basketball at historically black colleges and universities.

An examination of the Black Power movement in the late 1960s in the UK, surveying both the individuals and the cultural forces that defined the era. ...

Documentary about jazz great Chet Baker that intercuts footage from the 1950s, when he was part of West Coast Cool, and from his last years. We see...

Declassified documents from the Cold War shine light into the hidden communications between the US and the Soviet Union during the heavy tensions....