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.

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accuse...

Starting with a long and lyrical overture, evoking the origins of the Olympic Games in ancient Greec...

Part two of Leni Riefenstahl's monumental examination of the 1938 Olympic Games, the cameras leave t...

Tells the life story of Danish author Karen Blixen, who at the beginning of the 20th century moved t...

In April of 1945, Germany stands at the brink of defeat with the Russian Army closing in from the ea...

New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the...

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the...

The history of Frankenstein's journey from novel to stage to screen to icon.

An Irish rogue uses his cunning and wit to work his way up the social classes of 18th century Englan...

Out of State is the unlikely story of native Hawaiians men discovering their native culture as priso...

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals...
An in-depth documentary about the making of David Cronenberg's feature film, Cosmopolis (2012), an a...
Amarantos is a meditation on history and the shifting relevance of temporal and spiritual values. In...

Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. ...

Three women whose paths never cross, yet are bound by the shared experience of losing their mothers ...

Examines the impact a century of struggling for survival has on a native people. It weaves the Crow ...

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipo...

France, 1914, during World War I. On Christmas Eve, an extraordinary event takes place in the bloody...

The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...