In a mixture of feature film, music documentary and animated comics, historical facts are retold, analyzed and interpreted in modern settings. Ludwig van Beethoven, played by Lars Eidinger, becomes a contemporary of today's audience. Quick-tempered, irascible, curmudgeonly - that is the common image of Ludwig van Beethoven, the composer with the wild lion's mane. But there is also another Beethoven - young, seductive, spirited and, above all, combative.
Lionel Rose, Australia's first Aboriginal world champion boxing hero - the man behind the myth
The life of Frank Sinatra, as an actor and singer and the steps along the way that led him to become...
Seven years since his last visit to Nigeria, a filmmaker meditates on the death of his father.
In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...
The 1960s was an extraordinary time for the United States. Unburdened by post-war reparations, Ameri...
Gaga has travelled through time with her ever changing sound, reinventing herself for every album, a...
Robert De Niro is famous for his award-winning portrayals of gangsters, criminals and socially distu...
A look at the life and work of Spanish filmmaker and film critic Fernando Méndez-Leite, as he writes...
One day, in Savigny, an 18-year-old boy left his house in the middle of the war, saying: "I'm leavin...
In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award ...
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.
Germán Cipriano Gómez Valdés Castillo, a young radio announcer from Cuidad Juárez, succeeds in drawi...
Compilation of images of the amateur recordings of Madronita Andreu, Catalan intellectual of the nin...
Robert Altman's life and career contained multitudes. This father of American independent cinema lef...
KEN SAN pieces together the puzzle of the life and legacy of Japan's mythical acting icon, Ken Takak...
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
America may be ready for a blind woman who has a career or is raising a family, but is it ready for ...