Charles Gagnon

Every New Year, and in celebration of their Independence, Haitian families gather together to feast in honor of a line of ancestors that fought for th...

The extraordinary story of the Irish War of Independence (1919-22): from the failed insurrection of 1916, the detailed account of how pro-independence...

The film explains the French Revolution of 1848. Bernard Blier's narration is supported by pictures once drawn by contemporary artists including Honor...

A retrospective look at the anarcho-syndicalist and anarcho-communist experience in Spain from 1930 until the end of the Civil War in 1939.

What kind of world power is Iran becoming, and how will Western countries deal with it?

'Karama has no walls' is set amidst Yemen's 2011 uprising. The film illustrates the nature of the Yemeni revolution in stark contrast to the gross vio...

After the elections that followed the Tunisian revolution, as well as the violence that shook the country, an author seeks to make a film on women's i...

These are strange times indeed. While they continue to command so much attention in the mainstream media, the 'battles' between old and new modes of d...

"Jeunesse Rouge" is a documentary exploring young French Communist revolutionaries fighting for a just and equal society. The film follows their organ...

In 1794, French revolutionary Maximilien Robespierre produced the world's first defense of "state terror" - claiming that the road to virtue lay throu...

This program illustrates how video activists have developed sophisticated use of small format video, with poetic and powerful imagery, complex mixes o...

The film is about aftermaths and reckonings. Revisiting material for his earlier 4-part series, Karlin returns to Nicaragua to examine the history of...

Composed of stills by renowned Magnum photographer Susan Meiselas taken in 1978 and 1979 during the overthrow of the fifty-year dictatorship of the So...

Shot in 1983–84 and focusing on the work of the Historical Institute, this film witnesses how Nicaraguans are recovering their history, the memory of...

Through the eyes of journalists and photographers working at Barricada, the official publication of the FSLN, the film observes the problems of puttin...