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.

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

The man behind the legend and a knowing look at 1950s Hollywood are revealed in this dynamic biopic ...

An intimate, behind-the-scenes look at how an anonymous chef became a world-renowned cultural icon. ...

This compelling Documentary moves beyond the spotlight and past the attention-grabbing headlines to ...

Armed with a limitless Rolodex and a Benedict Canyon enclave with its own disco, Allan Carr threw th...

In 1996, Damon Hill claimed the Formula 1 world championship—defying the odds and overcoming familia...

Everyone thinks that Bob Kane created Batman, but that’s not the whole truth. One author makes it hi...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

A cursed dancer and a blind musician — both ostracized by society — become business partners and ins...

The views and thoughts of Canadian writer Margaret Atwood have never been more relevant than today. ...

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

Hirayama Jirou has lost his mother in the Great Kanto Earthquake and now runs a soba stall with his ...

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...

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...