How did Marilyn Monroe become one of the greatest sex symbols of all time? What drove a prudish little Californian girl, who was not especially pretty nor exceptionally talented, to become this incredibly striking platinum blonde superstar? How did she become the icon capable of balancing innocence with raw sensuality, whilst continuing to captivate the masses to this day? How did she achieve this? And what price did she pay?
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

Japan, 1954. A legend emerges from the ashes of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, devastated by atomic bombs i...

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.

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

The documentary explores Zuckerberg's journey from a Harvard student to founder and CEO of Facebook....

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

Discover Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (The Trocks), an all-male company that for 45 years h...

Documentarian Jose Sanchez-Montes turns his attention towards the late Cuban musician Ignacio Villa,...

A documentary short catching up with John Halsey a.k.a. Barry Wom of The Rutles

The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole...

The evolution of the zombie from its roots in Haitian voodoo to its coveted role as the world's most...
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of H. Spencer Lewis's initiation into the Rosicrucian Trad...

Kleist's death at Wannsee - a spectacular case that has disturbed and fascinated posterity to this d...

Frantz Fanon alone embodies all the issues of French colonial history. Martinican resistance fighter...

A documentary about the life and works of the maestros of Imaginary Painting School who made Iranian...

A documentary about Haruomi Hosono, a musician respected around the world and the music composer of ...