This is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly unfinished literary work. We will try to trace back to the origins of his inspiration so as to understand why his work met and still meets with so much success. How did JRR Tolkien manage, through the power of words alone, to so widely instill wisps of magic in the midst of a particularly disenchanted 20th century?

Follows the story of "Grizzly Man" Timothy Treadwell and what the thirteen summers in a National Par...

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

Marco Paolini interviews Luigi Meneghello about growing up under fascism, his involvement with the I...

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

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

Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a...

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

In his lifetime, Thomas Merton was hailed as a prophet and censured for his outspoken social critici...

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—w...

The first of two documentaries about Ingmar Bergman produced to mark his 70th birthday. Includes beh...

Franco-American film pioneer Maurice Tourneur is a forgotten name in cinema history. This film trace...

An hour-long documentary on the life and career of actor David Gulpilil.

Afghan filmmaker Mithaq Kazimi documents injustices done to a targeted group of his neighbors, the B...

Harold Crick is a lonely IRS agent whose mundane existence is transformed when he hears a mysterious...

This shows physicist Stephen Hawking's life as he deals with the ALS that renders him immobile and u...