The story, hidden by historians and biographers, of Jeanne, a black woman, whose real name is unknown, who was the muse and companion of the mythical French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867).

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

For three and a half centuries, from the same day that Diego Velázquez (1599-1660) applied his last ...

The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

A dying man in his forties recalls his childhood, his mother, the war and personal moments that tell...

An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a ...

The film tells the story of Pir Sultan Abdal, a famous folk poet in Turkey, who criticized some Otto...

A look at legendary Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki following his retirement in 2013.
As incomparable in swordplay and wordplay as he is, the gallant soldier, philosopher, and poet Cyran...

A portrait of the visionary Dutch artist M. C. Escher (1898-1972), according to his own words, taken...

A dramatised documentary about the life of Rumi, a Persian mystical poet whose images of universal l...

The first episode in a series of “adaptations” of poet Bernadette Mayer’s book Utopia that artist Be...

From the rains of Japan, through threats of arrest for 'public indecency' in Canada, and a birthday ...

A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—onl...

The life of the revered 18th-century Armenian poet and musician Sayat-Nova. Portraying events in the...

Tony Curtis, the man who influenced Elvis Presley and James Dean. A sex symbol, a matinee idol, a po...

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...

I AM RAQUEL WELCH is a feature documentary that celebrates the life of a trailblazing actress and si...