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.

I Was a Jewish Sex Worker is a humorous, no-holds-barred autobiographical film about the director’s ...

In 1972, officer Frank Serpico exposes the corruption which poisons the roots of the NYPD and become...

Forced into exile by the English after being crowned King of Scotland, legendary warrior Robert the ...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...

A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.

Dubbed New York's "Queen of the Night," proto–club kid Susanne Bartsch has been throwing unforgettab...

Last week Freddie Mercury would have celebrated his 60th birthday. To mark the occasion, celebrity ...

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

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...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

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

A documentary by Donna Zaccaro about the political trailblazer, Geralidine Ferraro. Featuring inter...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a c...

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

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.

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