Poetic documentary about the polar expedition of S. A. Andrée which Troell had previously dramatized in "Ingenjör Andrées luftfärd" (1982).
May 5, 1821. Napoleon Bonaparte, deposed emperor exiled on the island of St. Helena, is about to tak...
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, t...
How in 1959, during the heat of the Cold War, the government of the United States decided to create ...
The last sovereign Zulu King, a female British missionary, an ambitious colonial official and a youn...
This program presents the life and ministry of George Muller, who cared for thousands of orphans in ...
A new look at the public and private life of one of the most important statesmen in the history of E...
This 2004 documentary by Werner Herzog diaries the struggle of a passionate English inventor to desi...
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever c...
The Impressionists are the most popular group in art history – millions flock every year to marvel a...
Ferdinand de Lesseps, known as “The Great Frenchman”, will embark in the greatest adventure of his l...
A stationary camera, looking diagonally across a racetrack toward the infield, records the horses as...
An examination of the intimate life of America's most consequential president, Abraham Lincoln. As t...
A tiny fragment of an actuality film of Tom Merry (William Mechem), a 'lightning sketch' caricaturis...
Recounts the 40-year history of building the Salt Lake Temple, shown as if recounted by Wilford Wood...
Meet Brian Boland—the beloved, eccentric hot air balloonist and artist from the rural Upper Valley o...
Bordeaux, France, 1828. Spanish painter Francisco de Goya y Lucientes dies in his French exile on Ap...
In 1818, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, a powerful and timelessness nov...
An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the B...