The French female pioneer of immersion journalism, Maryse Choisy, who infiltrated in 1928 the prostitution underworld of Paris. Posing as a chambermaid, a lesbian bar dancer and more, she wrote a very successful and scandalous book about that avant-garde experience, and changed her mind about this world and these women's difficult condition.

From her precocious status as a sex symbol to her consecration as a filmmaker, Jodie Foster's story ...

Johan van der Keuken went against the grain in 1980: from Amsterdam (on April 30 with the coronation...

In the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a ma...

For the first time one of Hollywood's greatest stars tells his own story, in his own words. From a c...

The story of the Trojan war is one of history's most enduring legends. A beautiful queen elopes with...

Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...

Megacities is a documentary about the slums of five different metropolitan cities.

After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly as Willy, Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette is tr...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

Brad Pitt is a singular actor in Hollywood's glamorous world, breaking through his "playboy image" a...

When the revolution in Nicaragua won its victory nearly 40 years ago, the world began to dream. A yo...

At age 25, Olivier Rousteing was named the creative director of the French luxury fashion house, Bal...

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been...

Documentary depicting the lives of child prostitutes in the red light district of Songachi, Calcutta...

Charlotte Gainsbourg looks at her mother Jane Birkin in a way she never did, overcoming a sense of r...

Thirty years after the release of his film JFK (1991), filmmaker Oliver Stone reviews recently decla...

Fleeing religious persecution, resilient Jewish immigrants arrive in Toronto and begin building affo...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

The viewpoints of women from a country that no longer exists preserved on low-band U-matic tape. GDR...