Jon Mikl Thor was a bodybuilding, steel bending, brick smashing rock star in the '70s & '80s whose band, Thor, never quite made it big. Years later he attempts a comeback that nearly kills him.
From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joy...
Raphael: The Lord of the Arts is a documentary about the 15th century Italian Renaissance painter Ra...
Sentenced to life in prison at 15, musician JJ'88 finds hope by writing songs during solitary confin...
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his ...
The tortured life of Paul Morphy (1850s New Orleans chess prodigy) is examined.
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journa...
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
In Ireland in the mid 1960s, two feuding brothers and their respective Ceilidh bands compete at a mu...
In the 1970s, Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, inte...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
The illegitimate son of an African slave and a French plantation owner, Joseph Bologne rises to impr...
In the early 1900s, the fictional Catfish Row section of Charleston, South Carolina serves as home t...
The life and work of New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat have been marked by a long quest for ident...
The discography of Roy Orbison (1936-1988) - which yielded some of the most heartfelt, passionate cl...
Overcoming the seemingly insurmountable odds that life threw his way, Liston became heavyweight cham...
In the fifties, when the future Democratic Republic of Congo was still a Belgian colony, an entire g...
A feature-length documentary about Star Trek's iconic original Green Girl, Susan Oliver: Prolific ac...
A real time journey witnessing the rise, fall, and ultimate redemption of the fierce feminist pionee...
"The Television Years" examines the events that took place in the years between 1956 and 1960, in wh...
Oscar winning composer Ryuichi Sakamoto weaves man-made and natural sounds together in his works. Hi...