Fighter pilot, inventor, spy - the life of Roald Dahl is often stranger than fiction. Through a vast collection of his letters, writings and archive, the story is told largely in his own words with contributions from his last wife Liccy, daughter Lucy and biographer Donald Sturrock.
An airline pilot tries to balance two wives he has in two separate cities.
Mild-mannered mystery writer D. H. Mercer has become so immersed in his material that his creation, ...
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Pe...
The adventures of an old-fashioned master cabinet maker in Munich and the tiny red-haired goblin Pum...
Sir Tony Robinson takes a journey back in time to find out where Blackadder really began, and to unc...
Billy's hamster turned 10 in human years, but was awaiting to see the Grim Reaper. Billy and his fri...
Bill Drummond, once the most notorious man in pop music, now travels around the world baking cakes, ...
A journey into the BBC archives unearthing glorious performances and candid interviews from some of ...
Rich knows a lot about accidents. So much so, he is scared to do anything that might endanger him, l...
Bosnian Croat writer Miljenko Jergović and Serbian writer Marko Vidojković replace one another by th...
In celebration of his ninetieth birthday, Sir David Attenborough shares extraordinary highlights of ...
Barry B. Benson, a recent college graduate who wants more out of his life than making honey, decides...
Portrait of Marceline Loridan-Ivens, a writer and filmmaker who survived the Holocaust.
Narrated by Linda Hunt, this documentary examines the life of the late author and gay rights activis...
Umberto Eco, the author of best-selling novels who passed away in February 2016, unveils the secrets...
How the inventor of the detective story became his own greatest mystery.
In the series premiere, Baloo, an air cargo pilot, meets Kit Cloudkicker, a 12-year-old orphan, and ...
Well-known Croatian author Pero Kvesić, who has been struggling with a severe lung disease, document...
When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst f...
A poignant biography of one of the most successful and wildly-read writers of the 20th century. Her ...