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.

By ending the life of Jean Senac on August 30, 1973 in Algiers, his assassins believed they would si...

1936. Giovanni Comini, the youngest Federal in Fascist Italy, is summoned to Rome for a delicate mis...

Told through performances, TV interviews, home movies, family photographs, private letters and unpub...
The programme offers unique access to Julia Donaldson, her family, her rich archives and home movies...
In 1972, Bahman Maghsoudlou made a short film about Iranian artist Ardeshir Mohasses. For 36 years, ...
A story about my sister, Dr. Lindsay Eisenhour, one of the lead veterinarians at Neel Veterinary Hos...

Profile of actress Greta Garbo, narrated by Glenn Close

True story of Norman Bethune, a medical doctor who fought for justice in China during Mao's rise to ...

Fueled by a raging libido, Wild Turkey, and superhuman doses of drugs, Thompson was a true "free lan...

Using archival footage, cabinet conversation recordings, and an interview of the 85-year-old Robert ...

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ...

A chronicle of the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, who was reviled...

A biography of Charles Wesley, father of the Weselyan Church, hymn writer, and preacher.

Diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, documentarian Matt Embry takes viewers on a transnational journey...

In 1894, French officer Alfred Dreyfus is wrongly convicted for the treasonous acts of another man, ...

For over 30 years a man termed as a mad man, comes to light as his passionate work of collecting art...

On a gloomy March 1881, an old, sick man was dying in the Nikolaevsky military land hospital in St. ...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...