How does Pakistani president Pervez Musharraf defend his desire to democratize his nation while functioning as its dictator? As Musharraf faces impeachment charges, Pakistani filmmaker Sabiha Sumar shares a rare …

On August 12, 1908, Henry Ford introduces the mass-produced and gasoline-powered Model T, which will have a profound effect on the U.S. automobile market, and ultimately the electric car’s downfall. …

Hosted by the International Documentary Assoc., a collection of 20 or so acclaimed docs will screen at Village East and IFC cinemas through the end of the week. A few of these docs have been previewed on Foreign Exchange. Read the full lineup here, including films about Liberia, water politics, a matador’s bio (pictured), Laos, Sudanese rap, more.

On August 6, 1945, the Enola Gay, a U.S. B-29 bomber, drops the first atomic bomb used on people over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. Between the blast and the …

Aug. 4, 1944: the Nazi Gestapo captures 15-year-old Anne Frank, after 2 years of hiding with her family in an Amsterdam warehouse. In the small space she wrote her diary, arguably the most famous account of the Holocaust. Frank died in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp two months before it was liberated. Read more about Nazis & The Holocaust on PBS.