Glamorous and hugely popular Joan Crawford raised herself from brutal poverty to Academy Award-winning stardom by guts, determination and hard work. During her 50-year career, she made over 80 films. But her obsessive perfectionism led to the later caricature of coat-hanger-wielding harridan that even the adoration of fans could not counter. Still, she has endured as one of the most popular icons of the movies, an early role model to a million young women who aspired to her image of stylish magnetic power and unquestioned independence.
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Commissioned to make a propaganda film about the 1936 Olympic Games in Germany, director Leni Riefen...
Filmmaker Molly Gandour, in her mid-20s, returns to her childhood home in Indiana to speak with her ...
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Russian avant-garde filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein and German playwright Bertolt Brecht recount the bri...
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Set deep in the traditional territory of Tahltan First Nation, Northern British Columbia’s Red Chris...
A true Canadian iconoclast, acclaimed transgender country/electro-pop artist Rae Spoon revisits the ...
In this documentary by Coline Serreau, known for her feature film Why Not?, a selection of Frenchwom...
"The Apology" explores the lives of former "comfort women," the more than 200,000 girls forced into ...
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A young socialite hires a bodyguard to protect her when an ex-convict begins stalking her.
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