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.

Giovanni Segantini rose from humble origins to become the most important of Italian pointillists, an...

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of H. Spencer Lewis's initiation into the Rosicrucian Trad...

A short documentary about the life of director and artist René Laloux, featuring an interview with L...

Indonesian activist Soe Hok Gie experiences a political awakening during the tumultuous regimes of S...

After a brief flash-forward to Frank Sinatra as an old man, saying "I miss my guys," the movie's mai...
A dramatized account of Denmark's first women's rights activist, Mathilde Fibiger. Based on letters ...

From 1971 to 1973, Richard Nixon secretly recorded his private conversations in the White House. Thi...

Don Johnson stars as Elvis Presley in this made-for-TV true story about The King's love affair with ...

An 80-year-old former fashion model and cult film actress reflects on her life after surviving cance...

Boris Zhadanovsky, a hereditary nobleman and officer who was predicted to have a brilliant military ...

Film critic Alejandro G. Calvo traces an audiovisual journey through the work of David Lynch trying ...

Starring Anthony Hopkins as speed king Donald Campbell. Set in 1967, Campbell broke the 300mph water...

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after ha...
When two women with a video camera follow an HIV research team to Eritrea, Africa, they find a stran...

A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulte...

Who is Jesus, and why does he impact all he meets? He is respected and reviled, emulated and accused...