An account of the life and work of the Swiss writer Johanna Spyri (1827-1901), the barely known artistic mother of Heidi, her brave alpine heroine, who was first introduced to the world between 1880 and 1881, in a novel published in two parts, and became definitely immortal thanks to an anime series, released in 1974, directed by the Japanese genius Isao Takahata.

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Par...

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

A humorous visit to the turbulent world of the controversial Spanish boxer José Manuel Urtain.

Lyle and Eric Menendez were nice, educated boys from Beverly Hills, which makes the murder of their ...

Painter, poet and playwright, teacher and freethinker, lover and traveler, Austrian artist Oskar Kok...

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

Yves Montand would have been 100-years-old in 2021. A journey through the 20th century by the son of...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

James Grashow is an artist who has built—among many other things-- giant 15 foot tall fighting men, ...

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

The two brothers Jean and Pierre Ravier have opened almost all the "classic" (difficult) routes in c...

Kirk Douglas recounts his remarkable life in a celebrated one-man theater performance augmented with...

Acknowledged as one of the greatest singers of the twentieth century, Arena explores the rise of the...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...