One of the most controversial writers of our times, join Trainspotting author Irvine Welsh as he undergoes a remarkable trip to find new meaning in his work, life and legacy.

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revol...

A portrait of the artist as a "sublime demon with the archangel's face", with an innovative musique ...

NHK has followed baseball sensation Shohei Ohtani closely since his 2018 Major League debut. We look...

Olympic Champion, Kiwi Icon, Tongan Leader, Orphan, Mother...winning was just part of the journey.

In the spotlight of global media coverage, the first transgender woman ever to perform as Don Giovan...

At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an English...

A concert film highlighted by performances from Marvin Gaye, Jerry Butler, and Roberta Flack.

Darwin meets Hitchcock in this documentary. Directors Dan Geller and Dayna Goldfine have created a p...

In the summer of 1975, the young director Steven Spielberg set new standards for cinema worldwide wi...
Selänne is a documentary about Teemu Selänne—the best Finnish ice hockey player of all time. It's di...

As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, se...

Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding sk...

He went from street-wise tough to art-collector liberal-activist, from circus-acrobat hunk to Academ...

Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary pa...

The story of the legendary wits who lunched daily at the Algonquin Hotel in New York City during the...

A partly dramatised account of the life of classical composer Sir Edward Elgar. An episode of the BB...

The extraordinary story of Swedish writer Selma Lagerlöf (1858-1940), creator of Nils Holgersson, a ...

One day filmmaker Andres Pardo stumbles across 2,000 feet of Super 8 family footage at a flea market...