From the series "The Modern World: Ten Great Writers", this playful documentary introduces James Joyce's most famous work "Ulysses". It includes fantastic adaptations to film from passages of the novel. It also includes excerpts from a book written by Joyce's friend, the artist Frank Budgen, entitled "James Joyce and the making of Ulysses". Amongst those interviewed is author Anthony Burgess.
The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destro...
A young teacher inspires her class of at-risk students to learn tolerance, apply themselves, and pur...
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by...
Documentary on Belgian director of greek descent Jean Daskalidès.
The true story of the influential and controversial columnist, Walter Winchell.
France, 1897. Colonel Georges Picquart challenges the French government when he discovers the obscur...
About the life of the Russian biologist Ivan Michurin. 1912 year. Having rejected American offers t...
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A succulent account of the life of French chef Auguste Escoffier (1846-1935) who made the simple act...
This is a very old Bengali movie which shows Sri Ramakrishna's innocent and pure devotion to the div...
After an inspiring chance encounter with his idol, rookie journalist Jay Bahadur uproots his life an...
An emblematic figure in the defense of Berber culture, Mouloud Mammeri (1917-1989) experienced numer...
A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign...
On January 31, 1857, the French writer Gustave Flaubert (1821-80) took his place in the dock for con...
In 1991, American Psycho, the third novel by controversial writer Bret Easton Ellis, provoked heated...
The life of the swedish writer Moa Martinson: at the age of 18, Moa marries the stone worker Karl an...
The brief life of Jean Michel Basquiat, a world renowned New York street artist struggling with fame...
Year 1915. Helene Schjerfbeck lives as a forgotten artist with her elderly mother in the countryside...
Sam Elliot stars as Sam Houston, the visionary who nearly single-handedly forged the state of Texas ...
Britney Spears has said that her conservatorship had become “an oppressive and controlling tool agai...