In a world that spins faster and faster, bibliomaniacs take refuge from the rush and the noise inside the library. Amid whispers, they confess the meaning of life. A celebration of thought and obsession, where libraries reveal their inhabitants

Explorer Bruce Parry visits nomadic tribes in Borneo and the Amazon in hope to better understand hum...

Examined Life pulls philosophy out of academic journals and classrooms, and puts it back on the stre...

Poet, essayist, novelist and filmmaker, Michel Houellebecq has always had close ties with the cinema...

Documentary about the Dutch author, illustrator and performer Joke van Leeuwen, who has won various ...

Well known for its exploration of seduction and revenge, the “Dangerous Liaisons” by Choderlos de La...

A poetic look at the life and legacy of legendary author Philip K. Dick (1928-1982), who wrote over ...

This refreshingly frank and impartial study of the discovery and development of the notorious halluc...

A dynamic configuration of images and videos overlaid with musings on human existence.

Hours and historical meetings, Pierre Assouline has composed an anthology of the best extracts prese...

Herbert Fingarette once argued that there was no reason to fear death. At 97, his own mortality bega...

An installation film that consists of a six-hour-long monologue performed by Edith Clever, who reads...

VPRO icon Wim Brands died on April 4, 2016. He was known to the general public as a presenter of the...

The impact of Marx on the 20th century has been all-pervasive and world-wide. This program looks at ...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

In 1847, British writer Emily Brontë (1818-48), perhaps the most enigmatic of the three Brontë siste...

Mark Gatiss explores and celebrates Dracula, an icon of popular culture, asking just why we keep com...