Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion

Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion 2006

8.30

Japan has been invaded and conquered by the Britannian Empire. Japan is now known as Area 11 and its citizens known as Elevens. The Britannian Empire takes away Japan's autonomous power and imposes its rule through the use of Knightmares. The Empire's rule has never faltered, but cracks have begun to show...

2006

Genius of the Modern World

Genius of the Modern World 2016

7.60

Historian Bettany Hughes retraces the lives of three great thinkers whose ideas shaped the modern world - Karl Marx, Frederick Nietzsche and Sigmund Freud.

2016

Reinventing China

Reinventing China 2023

7.50

China's history of the last 200 years seems like a boomerang, returning to the West what it once unleashed. The series reveals how devastating the struggles for identity and power have been for the population since the fall of the "Middle Kingdom," and how closely these tragedies are intertwined with our own. Great hopes were placed in a wide variety of visions for the future—and each time, bitter disappointment ensued. From the decline of the empire to its resurgence as a superpower, China's history is both a dream and a nightmare, in which human life is of little value.

2023

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone

Russia 1985-1999: TraumaZone 2022

8.65

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

2022

Iron Curtain: Life Under Soviet Occupation

Iron Curtain: Life Under Soviet Occupation 2024

7.00

How did the Soviet Union impose its communist ideology on the countries of Central and Eastern Europe after World War II? The story of how, from 1945 until the construction of the Berlin Wall in 1961, these countries were gradually subjected to the totalitarian Soviet yoke.

2024