In 1943, Noor Inayat Khan was recruited as a covert operative into Winston Churchill's Special Operations Executive. With an American mother and Indian Muslim father, she was an extremely unusual British agent. After her network collapsed, Khan became the only surviving radio operator linking the British to the French Resistance in Paris, coordinating the airdrop of weapons and agents, and the rescue of downed Allied fliers.
Follow the journey of Vice President Kamala Harris, the first black woman and South Asian American t...
He was one of the most notorious Nazi war criminals, infamous for his assassination attempts on twin...
Shake ‘Em On Down is a one-hour documentary film which aims to tell the story of Fred McDowell, who ...
Against the backdrop of a turbulent era in Brazil, this documentary captures Pelé's extraordinary pa...
An intimate portrait of the superb actress Gena Rowlands, icon of independent cinema. Together with ...
The Maginot Line: thousands of subway bunkers and concrete defenses lining the French border from Be...
A documentary highlighting the Soviet Union's legendary and enigmatic hockey training culture and wo...
The birth of the atomic bomb changed the world forever. In the years before the Manhattan project, a...
A portrait of Argentine libertarian politician Javier Milei.
In a rare interview, Katharine Hepburn shares her memories and memorabilia.
A documentary about the making of Jean-Pierre Melville's 1949 film "Le silence de la mer"
This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...
Gray Matters explores the long, fascinating life and complicated career of architect and designer Ei...
Born Ruby Stevens, she was orphaned when she was four. A chance audition led to a chorus job. By 17 ...
Not only did Mary Tyler Moore “turn the world on with her smile,” as her show’s theme song declared,...
Werner Herzog's documentary film about the "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen sum...
Ella Fitzgerald was a 15-year-old street kid when she won a talent contest in 1934 at the Apollo The...
As the first "blonde bombshell," Mae West reigned supreme and changed the nation's view of women, se...
Known for his personification of the Western Hero, it was Montana-born Gary Cooper's horse-riding sk...