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.
An analysis of the spirit and human qualities of Knud Rasmussen, who made a unique contribution to t...

When Danish filmmaker Lea Glob first portrayed Apolonia Sokol in 2009, she appeared to be leading a ...

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

An expansive Russian drama, this film focuses on the life of revered religious icon painter Andrei R...

The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...

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

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.

By combining actual footage with reenactments, this film offers both a documentary and fictional acc...

Yves Montand would have been 100-years-old in 2021. A journey through the 20th century by the son of...

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...

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Par...

The film is about famous Chechen ballet and folk dancer Mahmud Essembayev's life.

Told through the voice of former KGB agent Viktor Petrovich, whose life becomes inextricably linked ...

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

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...