In 1920s New York City, W. C. Fields is a successful headlining entertainer, but when his girlfriend leaves him and his broker loses his money, Fields begins anew in California. Working at a wax museum, Fields eventually lands a film role that ascends him to stardom. Back in the limelight and palling around with John Barrymore and the like, Fields meets an aspiring actress Carlotta Monti at a party, with whom he forms a rocky relationship.
The life of Italian businessman Ennio Doris, the founder of Banca Mediolanum.
A look inside the life of John F. Kennedy Jr.
The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the ...
Despite being blocked at almost every turn in pursuit of the sport he loved, Seve Ballesteros fought...
Biography of ex-pro wrestler Jesse Ventura follows his life beginning as a youngster to election as ...
The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morris...
The turbulent personal and professional life of actor Peter Sellers (1925-1980), from his beginnings...
In what would cause a fantastic media frenzy, Clifford Irving sells his bogus biography of Howard Hu...
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singe...
A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher a...
Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s Lon...
Aging King George III of England is exhibiting signs of madness, a problem little understood in 1788...
Depression-era bank robber John Dillinger's charm and audacity endear him to much of America's downt...
The story of Oscar Wilde, genius, poet, playwright and the First Modern Man. The self-realisation of...
A daughter is constantly overshadowed by her famous father, but she is determined to make her own ma...
A biography of Hildegard Knef, one of Germany's biggest post-war stars.
Summer 1890. In order to make some money to feed his family, Anton Chekhov, modest physician, wrote ...
An indentured Chinese laborer, brought to Japan to work in a coal mine during WWII, manages to escap...
Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the...