Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
Explore the dramatic career and personal struggles of the talented and tragically short-lived entert...
Kingdom of Hungary, 17th century. As she gets older, powerful Countess Erzsébet Báthory (1560-1614),...
In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all w...
The rise of Aretha Franklin’s career from a child singing in her father’s church’s choir to her inte...
This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the li...
A biographical film featuring the presidency and assassination of Abraham Lincoln during the America...
Cicely Tyson was Emmy-nominated as Outstanding Actress for her portrait of a Chicago schoolteacher w...
The film tells the story of an intuitive, adventurous man who loved his country and being Brazilian....
A failed engineering student in the late 1940s gets the unexpected education of a lifetime by workin...
The founding father has an extramarital affair and meets with the likes of Thomas Jefferson.
A biographical film about one of the greatest Medieval scientists and scholars, Al-Biruni.
A narration of episodes from the life of the famous Czech poet, Karel Hynek Mácha. Throughout the fi...
The movie follows Elia da Cortona, one of the most faithful followers of St. Francis, from 1209 to 1...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
The story of Buffalo Bill, born William Frederick Cody (1846-1917), a self-made man who went from wo...
In 1881 Ludwig of Bavaria goes on a cruise on a Swiss lake. He takes with him a famous actor, Josef ...
The story of Dame Whina Cooper, the beloved Māori matriarch who worked tirelessly to improve the rig...
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...