In 19th-century Italy, Giacomo Leopardi channels his debilitating illness and isolation into poetry.

Teacher František Kmoch is suspended because he plays at dances or composes at night. He forms a ban...

A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

Cult leader Warren Jeffs rises to power in the polygamist Mormon sect once headed by his late father...

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...

Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought...

Biography of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura follows his life beginning as a youngster to election as ...

After the loss of her husband, comedienne Joan Rivers and her daughter Melissa must discover a way t...

England, early 20th century. The future writer and philologist John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)...

A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air of...

When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbri...

The film is a series of vignettes from Taiji Tonoyama's life and film clips, interspersed with a dia...

After over 50 years of wandering up and down Japan, finally in the 1970s, the rough-hewn blind shami...

In 1964, a brash, new pro boxer, fresh from his Olympic gold medal victory, explodes onto the scene:...

Narcisus and Psyche is based on a novel by Sandor Weores which was adapted by Vilmos Csaplar and dir...

In 1939, just finished the Spanish Civil War, Spanish republican photographer Francesc Boix escapes ...

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous wit...

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When t...

Casanova, a young patriot in 18th-century Sicily, upon learning that his father and sister have been...

Best known as the inventor of the Moog synthesizer, Robert Moog was an American pioneer of electroni...