A comic study of 20th century history, reconstructing the life of one Tulse Luper, a writer, project-maker and professional prisoner. He was born in 1911 in Newport, Wales and last heard of in 1989. The story of his life is here pieced together from the evidence found in 92 suitcases scattered around the world. In the third of three parts, we follow Tulse Luper as he continues his adventures as a professional prisoner during the later years of the Second World War and the Cold War.
A chronicle of country music legend Johnny Cash's life, from his early days on an Arkansas cotton fa...
The television production captures the last decade of the life of the now world-renowned painter Kar...
The true story of boxer Jim Braddock who, following his retirement in the 1930s, makes a surprise co...
A biopic of writer Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book...
Best friends set out to conquer Hollywood but are ambushed when one of them is diagnosed with bipola...
The story of the life and career of eccentric avant-garde comedian, Andy Kaufman.
A tribute to the controversial black activist and leader of the struggle for black liberation. He hi...
Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident...
Though young Jane Austen's financially strapped parents expect her to marry the nephew of wealthy La...
It's 1957, and James Whale's heyday as the director of "Frankenstein," "Bride of Frankenstein" and "...
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing ...
An indentured Chinese laborer, brought to Japan to work in a coal mine during WWII, manages to escap...
The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around wome...
A retired farmer and widower in his 70s, Alvin Straight learns one day that his distant brother Lyle...
The true story of pianist Władysław Szpilman's experiences in Warsaw during the Nazi occupation. Whe...
The true story of how businessman Oskar Schindler saved over a thousand Jewish lives from the Nazis ...
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Nén...
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress...
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean clim...