
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...

The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...

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

An account of the life and work of the Polish writer Stanisław Lem (1921-2006), a key figure in scie...

Singer Tina Turner rises to stardom while mustering the courage to break free from her abusive husba...

The year is 1764. For over a year, Josef has been leading a precarious life in Venice. He hopes to b...

The Countess Cosel is based on the true story of the beautiful Anna Constantia of Brockdorff, a Germ...

The story of J. Robert Oppenheimer's role in the development of the atomic bomb during World War II.

His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his ...

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: I...

In 1429, a French teenager stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she ...

Czech painter and illustrator Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) ranks among the pioneers of the Art Nouveau...

A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to o...
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined durin...

"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film...

Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...

The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...

Kathe Kollwitz was 47 years old, and already a well established artist in Germany and abroad when Pe...