The film consists of a monologue performed by Walter Sedlmayr, who plays Theodor Hierneis, the chef at the court of Ludwig II of Bavaria. The screenplay was written by Syberberg and Sedlmayr and is based on the memoirs of Hierneis.

A Victorian surgeon rescues a heavily disfigured man being mistreated by his "owner" as a side-show ...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but ...

The story of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata, who led a rebellion against the corrupt, oppress...

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...

The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...

After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...

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

A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

The life of the famous French writer Alexander Dumas the Elder. Screenwriter Jaroslav Dietl did not ...

A documentary that traces the life and times of Bhagat Singh, a committed Marxist who most ably exem...

A film biography of Rikard Nordraak, composer of the Norwegian national anthem.

Hosted by Keeley Hawes, star of the popular television series The Durrells, this documentary reveals...

Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),...