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Goldoni’s “The Venetian twins”

  In this physical/​situation comedy the stock character types of the servant, buffoon, young lover, meddling father, and pompous peasant are all maintained in their traditional costumes (as is done Read More

The Modern Masters: Louise Bourgeois

  Every year, the renowned lectures given by Rosamond Bernier at the Metropolitan Museum of Art are sold out months in advance. Her lectures are really conversations, intimate chats about Read More

What the Ancients Knew: The Chinese

  This video profiles how ancient Chinese technologists used gunpowder, porcelain, the cast iron plow, kites, the magnetic compass, moveable type, the blast furnace, the multistage rocket and more. Host Read More

1421: The Year China Discovered America?

  This documentary examines the controversial theory that a Chinese Ming Dynasty fleet, led by Zheng He, sailed past the Cape of Good Hope and crossed the Atlantic to discover Read More

The Mission

  Eighteenth century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.

The Feast of the Goat

  Urania Cabral returns to Santo Domingo, after several years, and remembers her and her family’s relationship to Rafael Trujillo, the Dominican dictator, as well as the events surrounding his Read More

The Crime of Padre Amaro

  Politics and sexual passions threaten to corrupt a young, newly-ordained priest in a small Mexican town.

The Architects

  The architect Daniel Brenner is in his late thirties when he receives his first challenging and lucrative commission: to design a cultural center for a satellite town in East-Berlin. Read More

Wings of Desire

  Visible only to those like them and to human children, Damiel and Cassiel are two angels, who have existed even before humankind. Along with several other angels, they currently Read More

Under the Sand

  Marie, a professor of English literature in a Paris university, has been happily married to Jean for 25 years, although they have no children. During their summer vacations in Read More