The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

This documentary features Black women active in politics as well as community, labour and feminist o...

In 1912, the Titanic embarks on its inevitable collision course with history. In the wake of the ove...

The cultural roots of coal continue to permeate the rituals of daily life in Appalachia even as its ...

A short kid from a Canadian army base becomes the international pop culture darling of the 1980s—onl...

Per Persson left Sweden 40 years ago. In Pakistan he fell in love and became the father of two daugh...

Born in Campo de Criptana, a small village in the Spanish region of La Mancha, Sara Montiel (1928-20...

Olympia Stone presents a cinematic portrait of her father, famed New York City gallery owner and art...

A film about the Tibetan Freedom Concert in San Francisco in 1996.

Several years after leaving the orphanage, to which her father never returned for her, Gabrielle Cha...

Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, h...

The Death of 'Superman Lives': What Happened? feature film documents the process of development of t...

A student rebellion precedes revolutionary events in Prague.

The Kitades run a butcher shop in Kaizuka City outside Osaka, raising and slaughtering cattle to sel...

The true story of Joe Simpson and Simon Yates' disastrous and nearly-fatal mountain climb of 6,344m ...

Christy Martin broke boundaries and noses as she rose in the boxing world, but her public persona be...

Caitlyn Jenner's unlikely path to Olympic glory was inspirational. But her more challenging road to ...

At the strong insistence of his father, Ushimatsu Segawa conceals his origins from a “buraku” area o...

The story of Finnish singer Abraham 'Aappo' Ojanperä, who was born in the late 1850s. On his journey...

The Chola kingdom is under threat from forces both internal and external, and with crown prince Aadi...

Agnes may not seem like someone with much to laugh about. For one thing, she has albinism - a lack o...