Once Upon a Time...

Short comedic subject on the history of photography from the daguerrotype to modern amateur photographers.

Inspired by true events, a young Frederick Douglass is secretly taught to read and write by his master's wife. Using only the air as their blackboard,...

Exploring the art of Armenian portraitist Hakob Hovnatanyan, Parajanov revives the culture of Tbilisi of the 19th century.

This Passing Parade series entry looks at three instances of people who either caused or were the victims of errors.

Constantinople, Ottoman Empire, 1910. There are too many stray dogs on the streets, so the government decides to deport thousands of them on a desert...

This short film applies the prophecies of Nostradamus to events of World War II.

A landscape is only a landscape until we know what lies beneath. Pozo Ibarra, in the Central Mountains of León, is a mining complex full of significan...

Now the subjects of a despotic chief, far from having any favor to expect from him, as both themselves and all they have are his property, or at least...

Captain Jack, the leader of the Modoc Tribe, attempts to negotiate peace between the army leadership and his tribe following a crushing victory over t...

"Rhinoceros" (Rinoceronte) involves the fascinating figure of Alessandro de Medici (played by Justin Randolph Thompson) as he makes a passionate appea...

In the adaptation of a poem by Taras Shevchenko in the last third of XVIII a small fraction of 300 Cossacks who were enslaving their own people for Tu...

While on a vacation, an elderly Buffalo Bill dreams of his adventures as a young man when he scouted for the cavalry, fought Indians and captured outl...

This short tells the story of a mythical Norse warrior hero who in myth, gains an accursed hoard of gold.