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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Demirkırat stumbled on March 12, 1971. Actually, you know, they shoot limping horses. But this time it didn't. Turkish democracy continued to...

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

Revolutionaries passed before the streets of the 1960s on the road to democracy. Then the youth with the victory songs, the workers with the rebel...

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

In post-WWII Japan, an American captain is brought in to help build a school, but the locals want a teahouse instead.

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

The spring of 1950 was also the spring of the multi-party regime in Turkey. A new 10 years, a new regime, a new government. The first test of...

Amidst an onslaught of attacks from a sitting President and the deadly threat of a global pandemic, local election administrators work around the...

It's easy to say... After 23 years of single-party rule, Turkey decided to try democracy once again in 1946. In every attempt up to that time, the...

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

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...

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