In 1914, the Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa invites studios to shoot his actual battles against Porfírio Diaz army to raise funds for financing guns and ammunition. The Mutual Film Corporation, through producer D.W. Griffith, interests for the proposition and sends the filmmaker Frank Thayer to negotiate a contract with Pancho Villa himself.
The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rig...
In Mexico, two teenage boys and an attractive older woman embark on a road trip and learn a thing or...
A struggling salesman takes custody of his son as he's poised to begin a life-changing professional ...
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's mo...
A corrupt CIA agent Sands hires hitman El Mariachi to assassinate a Mexican general hired by a drug ...
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of ...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from wo...
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by workin...
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher w...
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian....
Having fought in the First Carlist War, Martin returns to his family farm in Gipuzkoa only to find t...
Jesse, a small-time criminal, high-tails it to Los Angeles to rendezvous with a French exchange stud...
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller w...
The Queen is an intimate behind the scenes glimpse at the interaction between HM Elizabeth II and Pr...
A biography of artist Frida Kahlo, who channeled the pain of a crippling injury and her tempestuous ...
Rowan Atkinson plays motor racing ace Sir Henry "Tim" Birkin. He was a brilliant racing driver of th...
A portrait of Steven Patrick Morrissey and his early life in 1970s Manchester before he went on to b...
In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene:...