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.

Writer/director Blake Edwards chronicles his wife Julie Andrews' decision to star in a TV variety sh...

Marshal Bruce Mathers III, better know by his stage name Eminem and his alter ego Slim Shady, is an ...

As the muse of Hal Hartley’s indie classics and as writer/director of the critically acclaimed Waitr...
Whatever became of the actor director Luchino Visconti famously cast as young Tadzio in "Death in Ve...

Petar Peca Popović is one of the greatest, most famous, most authoritative and for sure, the best, c...

A personal look at the influential former politician who rose to fame as a driving force behind anti...
Portrait of comic book artist Marcel Gotlib.

Volksbühne am Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz 1992-2017. The end of the GDR gave rise to new artistic freedoms ...

The documentary follows Chilly Gonzales from his native Canada to late '90s underground Berlin, and ...

Talented and enduring Academy Award-winning star, Gregory Peck, tells how it was when studios ruled ...

Ueli Steck may be the greatest speed alpinist the world has ever seen. In this film he tells the sto...

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of bal...

Story of the singer who came out of the Texas dustbowl to become the king of Honky Tonk. With his Fe...

An exploration of the life and music of Miles Davis.

222 A.D. During yet another decadent party, Emperor Heliogabalus recalls his former lover Zotikos fr...

Bound by their all-consuming desire, a young circus tightrope walker and a lieutenant forsake everyt...

From Mickey Mouse to the Magic Kingdom, he turned his dreams into entertainment for the ages. Now, l...

Before computer graphics, special effects wizardry, and out-of-this world technology, the magic of a...