Ett storslaget epos om två operastjärnors liv, från den hårda barndomen vid en kinesisk teaterskola, via deras framgång och berömmelse till deras nedgång, fall och möte efter många år från varandra. Parallellt med berättelsen om de två männen får vi hela Kinas moderna historia berättad för oss.

Fugui är en spelgalen familjefar i fyrtiotalets Kina. På grund av sitt spelande förlorar han sitt hus och hans fru Jiazhen överger honom. Vi följer sedan Jiazhens och Fuguis öde under några omvälvande årtionden i Kinas historia.

Familjedrama som skildrar det italienska samhällets utveckling under 40 år, sett från sett med de två bröderna Matteo och Nicola Caratis ögon.

Beijing, 1970s. The Cultural Revolution has driven most adults to the provinces leaving 14-year-old Monkey and his pals have free reign over the city. They hang around, get up to no good, and discover that unsolvable mystery known as "girls."

Paris tidigt 1970-tal. Studentrevolten i maj 1968 är avslutad men idéerna och upproret lever kvar. Gilles, en ung student med spirande konstnärsdrömmar, är fullt upptagen av tidens politiska strömningar och tillsammans med sina vänner engagerar han sig i fullt i kampen för ett annat samhälle. Deras aktioner blir allt mer radikala och när ett bråk med några säkerhetsvakter går överstyr ställs gruppen inför en rad personliga och kärleksrelaterade val.

A group of performing art troupe members each face their own trials and tribulations in Chengdu; from escaping a family scandal to dealing with unrequited love, each experiences rejection that shapes their lives.

During the Cultural Revolution, two young men are sent to a remote mining village where they fall in love with the local tailor's beautiful granddaughter and discover a suitcase full of forbidden Western novels.

The film is set in 1913 Beijing, during Yuan Shikai's presidency of the Republic of China. It depicts the adventures of a team of unlikely heroines: Tsao Wan, a patriotic rebel who dresses as a man; Sheung Hung, a woman in search of a missing box of jewels; and Pat Neil, the daughter of a Peking Opera impresario.

Based on a novel by the same name written by Gu Hua, a melodrama about the life and travails of a young woman who lives through the turmoil of the Cultural Revolution.

Västtyskland, tidigt 60-tal. Tvillingsjälarna Bernward Vesper och Gudrun Ensslin inleder en livslång kärleksaffär i ett land som ännu inte bearbetat sitt förflutna. Fast beslutna att utmana etablissemanget slår de sig samman med vänsterförfattare och politiska aktivister. Efter en tid träffar Gudrun Andreas Baader och blir en del av den våldsamma falang som kom att göra hans namn känt över hela världen.

Based on the novel of the same name by Cixin Liu, the first in the Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy. Hundreds of physicists died mysteriously. A Chinese nanomaterials expert, Wang Miao, sees a mysterious countdown in his eyes. Soon he finds out that the "disastrous planet" under three suns in a game really exists. The three-body civilization there will reach the Earth in 400 years. A future catastrophe is coming for humanity...

The friendship between two children is threatened by their parents’ differences. Malú is from a family that was upper-class before the Revolution and remains well-to-do through remittances from relatives overseas, and her single mother (Larisa Vega Alamar) does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito’s mother (Luisa María Jiménez Rodríguez),

Set in the frozen steppes of Mongolia, a young nomad is confronted with his destiny after animals fall victim to a plague which threatens to eradicate nomadism.

China's rapid changes from the late-1970s to the early 1990s, as seen through the lives of four performers in a theater troupe.

An animated remake of the 1974 children's movie "Shan shan de hong xing"

More than two decades after it left our screens, BBC Two’s iconic and much-loved music documentary series, Rock Family Trees, is back for a one-off special. The iconic music documentary series returns to examine the real story behind the birth of Britpop and how a handful of like-minded musicians, struggling to find an authentic voice, would pave the way for a revolution in British music. It is an intricately connected story of three of the biggest bands of the 1990s – Suede, Elastica and Blur – and how, for a brief moment in the middle of that decade, they changed British music forever, kickstarting a movement that still reverberates to this day.

The poet and painter, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, is among the world's living monuments to arts and letters. For well over a half century, Ferlinghetti helped shape the currents of poetry and literature with his forceful engagement with society and an ideological position that often found him at odds with the political currents of his day. Ferlinghetti's quiet, behind the scenes demeanor and disarming mien may have assuaged, or even fooled, certain opponents, while in reality he was a literary mercenary, a rebel at the forefront of our own cultural revolution.

The history of the irreverent "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" and the content battles it fought with its television network.

When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.

From 1972 until 1974, Joris Ivens and Marceline Loridan, along with a Chinese film crew, documented the last days of the Cultural Revolution, marking the end of an era. The vast amount of footage they shot was edited into 14 films of varying lengths. Focusing on ordinary people spread over a wide geographic area—many of whom were living and working in collectives—the filmmakers recorded a unique moment in history, and also captured some of the more enduring aspects of Chinese culture.