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.
Barbra Streisand grew up in working class Brooklyn, dreaming of escape from her tough childhood. A s...
Released on DVD as part of The Criterion Collection's "Martha Graham: Dance on Film" collection.
With the young Friedrich Engel’s letters and drawings from the years between 1838 and 1842, a unique...
You thought you knew him. Meet David Crosby now in this portrait of a man with everything but an eas...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
A biography on the life of Christina Aguilera.
Arturo Urbiola, independent singer/songwriter, talks about the influence music has had on his life, ...
Dan Wetzel and Kevin Armstrong undertake an exhaustive journey into the mind and motives behind the ...
Follow Academy Award winner Olympia Dukakis behind the scenes in this affectionate profile of a stal...
Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life i...
A celebration of the Irish punk/poet Shane MacGowan, lead singer and songwriter of The Pogues, that ...