The surprising and entertaining life of renowned film critic and social commentator Roger Ebert (1942-2013): his early days as a freewheeling bachelor and Pulitzer Prize winner, his famously contentious partnership with Gene Siskel, his life-altering marriage, and his brave and transcendent battle with cancer.
Professor James Shapiro goes in search of the mysterious man behind The Duchess of Malfi, the son of...
A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and wo...
A behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Abbas Kiarostami’s "Certified Copy" (2010).
30 years after Basic Instinct, Sharon Stone is still stigmatized for her role as a sexual psychopath...
Actor/cult icon Bruce Campbell examines the world of fan conventions and what makes a fan into a fan...
In 1998 Marco Pantani, the most flamboyant and popular cyclist of his era, won both the Tour de Fran...
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
Follow the journey of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first black woman and South Asian American t...
A behind-the-scenes documentary about director Michelangelo Antonioni as he's shooting his segment o...
A journey through the work of Spanish filmmaker Juan Piquer Simón (1935-2011).
How African artists have spread African culture all over the world, especially music, since the hars...
The history of legendary rock band Chicago is chronicled from their inception in 1967 all the way to...
Elem Klimov's documentary ode to his wife, director Larisa Shepitko, who was killed in an auto wreck...
In the late sixties, Spanish cinema began to produce a huge amount of horror genre films: internatio...
Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared,...
From 1957 —the year in which the Soviets put the Sputnik 1 satellite into orbit— to 1969 —when Ameri...
The filmmakers and lead actors of The Remains of the Day (1993) discuss how they came to make the fi...
From Le Petit Rapporteur to Sous vos applaudissements, from La Lorgnette to L'Ecole des fans, everyo...
A look back at the girl-group craze of the 60's through archival footage and interviews with those i...