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.

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...

This film follows scientist Henry Bates as he explores the Amazon for proof of natural selection.

New York in the 1920s. Max Perkins, a literary editor is the first to sign such subsequent literary ...

Clara Immerwahr and her husband to be Fritz Haber are both young and gifted chemists. Their struggle...
An examination of the life of great Russian author Leo Tolstoy, who penned the 1877 novel Anna Karen...

Documentary about film director and actor Bernhard Wicki.

An optician grapples with the Indonesian mass killings of 1965-1966, during which his older brother ...

The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time...

Anna is a psychologist undertaking research about famous suicidal women. She takes a specific intere...

A biography of Ian Dury, who was stricken with polio at a young age and defied expectations by becom...

Kleist's death at Wannsee - a spectacular case that has disturbed and fascinated posterity to this d...

This film, is about the courage and the determination of a young woman in djurdjur"as mountain in Al...

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team str...

As a renowned producer and close associate of Dan Rather, Mary Mapes believes she’s broken the bigge...

Nico, born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, Germany just before the outbreak of the Second World War is o...

A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-bloode...

The story of former Bayern Munich president Kurt Landauer, a Bavarian jew ousted by the National Soc...

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke...