Hans: Het Leven voor de dood (Hans, Life Before Death) is a documentary feature film about the life of the young composer Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963) and those who knew him intimately. The film is about the harrowing life of the musician, poet and actor Hans van Sweeden (1939-1963), who ended his life at the age of 24. Simultaneously, the film offers a poignant portrait of his contemporaries in the turbulent fifties and sixties and the children of the Nazis. It won the Golden Calf for Best Feature Film in 1983. Award of the Dutch film critics, 1983; the Belgian film critics Award, 1984; Best Dutch Documentary 1980-1990. (Wikipedia)

Painter Zdzisław Beksiński, his wife Zofia and their son Tomasz, a well-known radio journalist and t...

Efforts of the United Mine Workers, led by Mother Jones, to organize coal miners in southern West Vi...

An account of the life and work of the charismatic and seductive Spanish singer Julio Iglesias, from...
Taylor Alison Swift has evolved into one of the most popular names in modern music. Her strong voice...

Max Gimblett: Original Mind documents the life and process of eccentric, creative genius Max Gimblet...

From Star Trek to The Sound of Music, award-winning director Robert Wise was dedicated, inventive, a...

There never was a star quite like her. Adored by adults and children alike, at four she already led ...

A history of the British television comedy double act Morecambe & Wise to coincide with the BBC dram...

The story of Sri Prem Baba, spiritual master and humanitarian leader with followers around the world...

The story of the black, gay origins of rock n' roll. It explodes the whitewashed canon of American p...

In 2024, Abdelkrim Baba Aissa, aged 75, engages in a series of filmed interviews with Algerian journ...

Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought...

Through exclusive interviews and archival footage, this documentary traces an intimate portrait of s...

Carne Ross was a government highflyer. A career diplomat who believed Western Democracy could save u...

Shannon Amen unearths the passionate and pained expressions of a young woman overwhelmed by guilt an...

Part documentary, part drama, this film presents the life and work of Jack Kerouac, an American writ...

Dolly Parton leads a moving, musical journey in this documentary that details the people and places ...