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.
Born a lower-caste girl in rural India's patriarchal society, "married" at 11, repeatedly raped and ...
John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises t...
A 1993 TV special and biography of Sean Connery featuring archive footage and appearances by Albert ...
A biographical film about one of the greatest Medieval scientists and scholars, Al-Biruni.
The life story of traditional Irish folk singer Joe Heaney, who is estimated to have recorded in exc...
Unprecedented access into one of the world's greatest musical talents and his larger than life lifes...
Based on the musical journey of Pandit Lakhmichand, a folk artist who hailed from Haryana, India
Follows the man who survived an assassination attempt by poisoning with a lethal nerve agent in Augu...
From his discovery by a priest while serving time at the Missouri State Penitentiary to the infamous...
In 1958 New York Diane Arbus is a housewife and mother who works as an assistant to her husband, a p...
Humorous, melancholy documentary about copywriter, photo model and poet Frans Vogel (1935-2016). A h...
Next to the Bijenkorf on the Coolsingel stands one of Rotterdam’s most famous sculptures, an untitle...
Melania is both an ideal symbol of a conservative America and the evil embodiment of limitless ambit...
A young man who was sentenced to 7 years in prison for robbing a post office ends up spending 30 yea...
Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Hearing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony for the first time changed Daniel Bartholomew-Poyser’s life forev...
On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Matisse's birth and of the exhibition at the Center Pomp...
The prodigious genesis of a monument of world literature, too often reduced to its popular success, ...
The story of the cross destiny of George Orwell (1903-50) and Aldous Huxley (1894-1963), the genius ...
Muttiah Muralitharan's inspirational journey shedding light on the challenges and triumphs that defi...