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

Gus Van Sant tells the story of a young African American man named Jamal who confronts his talents w...

When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...

A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...

After he and his first wife separate, journalist David Sheff struggles to help their teenage son, wh...

A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...

A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his defor...

A vampire relates his epic life story of love, betrayal, loneliness, and dark hunger to an over-curi...

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale...

A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of...

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourho...
The life of Stephen Foster, composer who was the influence for the early Minstrel shows.

A musician is offered a job in Vienna as stage director, but his disagreements with the aristocratic...

A Danish family visits a Dutch family they met on a holiday. What was supposed to be an idyllic week...

The true story of photographer Elizabeth "Lee" Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war c...

A short film commissioned by CBC based on a poem by Canadian poet Irving Layton.

Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in southern Italian town of Gioia Tauro...

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's ...

The Theory of Everything is the extraordinary story of one of the world’s greatest living minds, the...

An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers ...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...