Bob Geldof grew up listening to the radio on the outskirts of Dublin, where his loneliness and resentment of prescribed drudgery manifested itself in an all-consuming desire to escape. It was an almost quintessential rock-star story — rebellion, transgression, fame, drugs, escapades, fading glory. That is, until he turned on the news one late-October evening in 1984 and saw a short story about a famine that moved him and changed his life. The next year, Mr. Geldof was in the Sahel region of Africa, overseeing distribution of the $140 million he and his fellow musicians ultimately helped to raise in one of the largest charity efforts ever organized.

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A short documentary by Sonny Garrett about the life, work and philosophy of William Blake featuring ...

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An intimate portrait, in his own words, of the Indian writer Salman Rushdie, author of The Satanic V...

Pierre Clément, student and photographer of René Vauthier, first accompanied him to Tunisia to make ...
A woman loses her voice, like a country that loses her at the same time. Pauline Julien, flamboyant ...

A film biography of Dr. Norman Bethune, the Canadian doctor who served with the loyalists during the...

A humorous visit to the turbulent world of the controversial Spanish boxer José Manuel Urtain.